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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-07-13 17:00:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-07-13 17:00:52 -0400 |
| commit | e06da9a921fa46634f28286b5daf9c85ff8c7a34 (patch) | |
| tree | 7af3cf6ca2a6009df21ca23e3c222c876095d7b3 /www/future.html | |
| parent | 95ae8e6d3cf0305fb78bdab0ff8a0118a63fbb1d (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-e06da9a921fa46634f28286b5daf9c85ff8c7a34.tar.gz | |
Documentation update.
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diff --git a/www/future.html b/www/future.html index 94eed664..ce58bfa7 100644 --- a/www/future.html +++ b/www/future.html @@ -117,13 +117,17 @@ data from us and handle the DBUS publishing job for us.</p> <h2 id="api_cleanup">Client API cleanup</h2> -<p>This is not a near-term project.</p> +<p>This will happen after 2.95 but before 3.0.</p> <p>The client API has some historical baggage, unfortunate naming, and scar tissue in it. At some point we're going to bump the API major version number to 5 and make the following changes:<p> <ul> +<li>MAXCHANNELS will increase so we can handle a GPS + GLONASS +constellation. This has become a production issue because of the +Geostar Geos 1M.</p> + <li><p>gps_open_r() will be renamed to gps_open(). The existing gps_open() will go away.</p></li> |