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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-09-04 19:11:51 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-09-04 19:11:51 +0000 |
commit | d7f2e6b347ad03dd4a113360660b09b8c8f364db (patch) | |
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Reorganize, moving a rarely-used/semi-obsolescent stuff into subdirectories.
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diff --git a/devtools/README b/devtools/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5fa2abe4 --- /dev/null +++ b/devtools/README @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +This is a list of developer tools included in the SVN source tarball +but not necessarily shipped in the tarball or binary distributions If you're +viewing it with Emacs, you can try doing Ctl-C Ctl-t browse through +the outline headers. Ctl-C Ctl-a will unfold them again. + +** ais.py + +AIS packet decoder in Python. Useful as a check on the C code. + +** fakecompare + +Compare the results from running gpsfake on a logfile between this +machine and a remote one. Especially useful when remote and local +have different word lengths. + +** findbreakage + +Starting from a specified SVN revision number, this Python program runs +regression tests forward until something fails. It uses a binary search, so +convergence should be very rapid. + +** leapsecond.py + +Gets the current leap-second correction forom IERS and/or the USNO. + +** logextract + +Extract pure NMEA from an emailed gpsd error log. The output can be fed +to gpsfake. (This one goes in the tarball.) + +** regress-builder + +This script runs an exhaustive test on combinations of compilation options, +looking for ones that break the build. + +** striplog + +Strip leading comment lines from NMEA sentence logs. gpsfake can do +this itself now, so this script has a lot of dust on it. + + + + |