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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-03-15 15:58:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-03-15 15:58:28 -0400 |
| commit | 4345ebe1230c27c04613c654ad1bdead663532cc (patch) | |
| tree | e6968f41deff172a23c5936ba435ade94c7096b1 | |
| parent | ff4a1c4e70d5bcb05313e0ed234a5daa263290e4 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-4345ebe1230c27c04613c654ad1bdead663532cc.tar.gz | |
Update documentation. All regression tests pass.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | www/protocol-transition.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ -* Wed Mar 10 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.93dev +* Mon Mar 15 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.93dev Support for JSON dumping and parsing of AIS message types 25 and 26, not yet observed in the wild on AISHub. Fix Debian bug #569703. by removing non-streaming mode from the Python exerciser. Fix Debian bug #572900 by unsetting the appropriate in-use flag in - the device array. + the device array. Change the libgps default from old protocol to + JSON. * Wed Mar 3 2010 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.92 Fix a packaging error. The new Python library module was diff --git a/www/protocol-transition.txt b/www/protocol-transition.txt index 990af775..16f86e89 100644 --- a/www/protocol-transition.txt +++ b/www/protocol-transition.txt @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ This is our schedule for the changeover: |================================================================ | Release | Timing | Description | 2.93 | Late March 2010 | +The library will default to initializing for JSON rather than old protocol. DBUS support deprecated. | 3.0 | Before 30 June 2010 | @@ -67,8 +68,7 @@ If you follow our transition advice now, you will be able to talk to all old-protocol and new-protocol versions of the daemon until the 3.0 shared client library is deployed in mid-2010, at which point your runtime will silently get smaller but you won't be able to use 2.x -daemon versions any more. You should only have to change your -application source code once. +daemon versions any more. We're counting on binary-package dependencies to make the transition easier. When you ship a release using the new interface library, |