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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2007-12-11 20:29:31 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2007-12-11 20:29:31 +0000
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The gpsdrive version of gpsd is dead as of gpsdrive-2.10pre4.
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@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ href="http://www.gpsdrive.cc/">GPSdrive</a> project, forked gpsd.
There are a couple of different stories about why the fork happened
and some clashing memories. However, the gpsdrive version did not
diverge from the parent gpsd in any significant way. The protocol
-it speaks is a proper subset of gpsd-2's.</p>
+it spoke was is a proper subset of gpsd-2's. This variant is also
+dead; Fritz dropped it in his gpsdrive-2.10 prerelease.</p>
<p>Another fork was ngpsd, part of the <a
href='http://www.navsys.org/navsys/'>NavSys</a> project. This
@@ -122,12 +123,6 @@ cooperation of all three of the 1.x maintainers. (The main reason
for that choice of hosting site was that it offered Subversion, which
Eric and the 1.x developers were all interested in experimenting with.)</p>
-<p>Fritz Ganter agreed to unfork the gpsdrive version of
-<code>gpsd</code> in early 2005, but as of December 2006 this hasn't
-actually happened yet. This may have something to do with the fact
-that gpsdrive releases have been very infrequent since; the last
-stable one was issued in March 2004.</p>
-
<p>In the year between June 2005 and June 2006 the <code>gpsd</code>
project went from being mostly a solo effort by Eric to attracting a
flourishing community of developers. Prominent among them are Chris