Geoclue2 and GPSD

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 12:21 +0300, Александр Волков wrote:
> 26.06.2015 10:49, Bastien Nocera пишет:
> > > > > None. I was hoping to do that but Bastien informed me that
> > > > > standalone
> > > > > GPS devices need to be calibrated etc by Apps so apps are 
> > > > > better
> > > > > off
> > > > > talking directly to GPSD.
> > > > Another way to solve that problem, in the future, might be to 
> > > > offer
> > > > GPSd's data over the network, in the same way that we're doing 
> > > > for
> > > > phones. This will mean no additional configuration necessary at
> > > > Geoclue's level, but people who want to feed it GPS data can do 
> > > > so
> > > > anyway.
> > > I don't really understand you. What do mean by "calibrated"?
> > He meant setup/paired/etc.
> How does it prevent using GPSd?

It doesn't.

> It's a job of a user to correctly setup GPSd, it's a job of GPSd to 
> communicate with devices.

Sure. And Geoclue has no configuration.

> Why do you care about it?

Because we don't want Geoclue to have configuration.

> > > Why don't just take values provided by GPSd?
> > Because gpsd is awful:
> > http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/why-not-gpsd.html
> 
> Are you kidding? How old is this article? Almost everything is wrong 
> there and this zombie must be killed.

Feel free to write your own reply, I'm not interested.

> BTW, the last release of gypsy was on 28 Aug 2012 and GPSd is 
> actively 
> developed.

Probably because gypsy is completely obsoleted by GPS devices built in
3G modems which we support out of the box.

>  From the standpoint of an application developer it would be much 
> better 
> to use only Geoclue2.

I completely agree with that.

I'm not interested in supporting GPSd. People will be able to feed data
from GPSd, gypsy or whatever else by feeding it through Geoclue's
network source support.