[josm-dev] livegps plugin update for new gpsd 2.9x (future 3.0) protocol

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:23:16PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
F> >   gpsd gets new protocol and quickly forgets the old one. So I've made
F> > a patch to support new protocol. It is WIP, yet, but I'm posting
F> > it for your review. See attach.
F> 
F> Thank you for your work. The problem has already been reported by 
F> someone so it is great to have a solution.
F> 
F> We are however concerned about what happens if someone uses an older 
F> version of gpsd which does not support the new protocol. Do you think it 
F> is possible to make the plugin fall back to the old protocol if it find 
F> that the new one does not work?

I think this is possible, but does it worth? The gpsd team urges everyone
to upgrade and pushes new protocol aggressively. In the latest release,
the libgps supports the old protocol, but the daemon already does not.

Can you please comment on including foreign code in plugin? What is the
correct procedure? The situation seems similar to the org.apache.tools.bzip2
in the core josm repo.

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