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

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:58:43PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
F> Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
F> > I think this is possible, but does it worth? The gpsd team urges everyone
F> > to upgrade and pushes new protocol aggressively. In the latest release,
F> > the libgps supports the old protocol, but the daemon already does not.
F> 
F> I think it is fair to assume that there will be a lot of two-year-old 
F> Linux distributions around. We cannot force people to upgrade their 
F> distribution just because they want to use the plugin. Did the version 
F> of gpsd that shipped with Debian and Ubuntu in 2008 already support the 
F> new protocol?

ok, I will try to make patch that supports both protocols. Any testers
for the old one?

F> > Can you please comment on including foreign code in plugin? What is the
F> > correct procedure? The situation seems similar to the org.apache.tools.bzip2
F> > in the core josm repo.
F> 
F> The JOSM plugin installer does not support dependencies on third-party 
F> libraries so the way you did it is probably the one that is easiest for 
F> users.

When I run 'svn up' on josm I see some messages like "fetching external
item". May be I misunderstand this... doesn't this mean some link to
external repo?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.