Re: [ gpsdrive ] Support for Bluetooth GPS?

[Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>]

Joerg wrote:
> I think the memory advantage is more on the negative side with the
> serial stuff inside gpsdrive. gpsd only needs 32K (23K in memory).
> And since the serial code and all arround it in gpsdrive is really
> old grown it's probably smaller to rip this out and have gpsd run as
> a seperate process. THe next benefit is that we don't have to hazzle
> about sigsegs with new receivers which send unexpected strings to
> gpsdrive. So I would really like to see the real NMEA parsing outside
> of the core gpsdrive program. 

+1. There will be bleeding edge hardware problems with gpsd, but gpsd
will be more robust over the spectrum of GPS devices and more resource
compact than anything we can hope to write.

> As already mentioned I would put in a feature (autostart-gpsd)  which
> would  optionally start gpsd directly while starting gpsdrive.

That would require root access of some sort. (see gnome-sudo, k3b dev
perms setup)


Hamish
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