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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2006-10-29 05:35:46 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2006-10-29 05:35:46 +0000
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Minor documentation tweaks.
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@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ source distribution.</p>
<li><a href="#designahead">Designing Ahead</a></li>
<ol>
<li><a href="#nonpvt">Non-PVT Data</a></li>
-<li><a href="#protov4">Design Sketch for Version 4 Protocol</a></li>
+<li><a href="#protov4">Design Sketch for GPSD-NG, the Next-Generation GPSD Protocol</a></li>
</ol>
<li><a href="#blindalleys">Blind alleys</a></li>
<ol>
@@ -1162,15 +1162,17 @@ type as revealed by I, how to interpret and label the data in the
private-use fields.</p>
<p>If we go for alternative (2), the first consequence is that we
-actually have to implement a Version 4 protocol. The existing GPSD
+actually have to implement a next-generation protocol. The existing GPSD
protocol is about out of namespace.</p>
-<h2 id="protov4">Design Sketch for Version 4 Protocol</h2>
+<h2 id="protov4">Design Sketch for GPSD-NG, the Next-Generation GPSD Protocol</h2>
<p>There are almost no more letters left in the namespace of the GPSD
version 3 protocol. At time of writing in late 2006 we can have one
-more command, 'h', and that's it. After that, extending the set
-will require a new command/response syntax.</p>
+more command, 'h', and that's it. After that, extending the set will
+require a new command/response syntax. Some posts in thew dev-list
+arcvhive refer to this as "Version 4", but that is a rev level we may
+or may not reach before GPSD-NG has to be implemented.</p>
<p>Steps towards defining a new syntax have been taken. The senior
developers have agreed on a new protocol with a basic sentence syntax
diff --git a/www/index.html.in b/www/index.html.in
index a08ce6f2..35599bd8 100644
--- a/www/index.html.in
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@@ -73,12 +73,12 @@ href="http://qpegps.sourceforge.net/">gpeGPS</a>, <a
href="http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/position/">position</a> and
<a href="http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/index.html">roadmap</a>.</p>
-<p>Under Linux, gpsd normally runs with zero configuration. The RPM
-installs hotplug scripts that do the right thing when a USB device
-goes active, launching <code>gpsd</code> if needed and telling
-<code>gpsd</code> which device to read data from. Then,
-<code>gpsd</code> deduces a baud rate and GPS type by looking at the
-data stream.</p>
+<p>Under Linux,<code>gpsd</code> normally runs with zero
+configuration. The RPM installs hotplug scripts that do the right
+thing when a USB device goes active, launching <code>gpsd</code> if
+needed and telling <code>gpsd</code> which device to read data from.
+Then, <code>gpsd</code> deduces a baud rate and GPS type by looking at
+the data stream.</p>
<p><code>gpsd</code> is high-quality, carefully-audited code. It is regularly
checked with the standard mode of <a href='http://www.splint.org'>splint</a>,