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author | Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> | 2017-04-14 17:59:57 -0700 |
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committer | Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> | 2017-04-14 17:59:57 -0700 |
commit | 1fa223fd7e652d1f6a9cb5a4d8b622cf5a4441b6 (patch) | |
tree | 53336f47c36e8311ae6d6a8551c668afb26ec6ef /www | |
parent | 8f1104d7dbbd15437bb572e189cd0fd2f264c58b (diff) | |
download | gpsd-1fa223fd7e652d1f6a9cb5a4d8b622cf5a4441b6.tar.gz |
Tweaks recent doc addition regarding Windows.
This fixes a few minor wording issues.
It also adds a heading for the Windows section, since it's content is
sufficiently different from the rest of the section to justify it.
It also fixes an unrelated typo noticed in passing.
TESTED:
Updated www page looks plausible.
Diffstat (limited to 'www')
-rw-r--r-- | www/hacking.html.in | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/www/hacking.html.in b/www/hacking.html.in index 8c61d208..939fc31a 100644 --- a/www/hacking.html.in +++ b/www/hacking.html.in @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ file in the source distribution.</p> <li><a href="#goals">Goals and philosophy of the project</a></li> <li><a href="#audience">Audience and supported hardware</a> <ol> + <li><a href="#windows">Windows support (limited)</a></li> <li><a href="#service">The time and location service</a></li> <li><a href="#tuning">The testing and tuning tools</a></li> <li><a href="#monitoring">The GPS/GNSS monitoring tools</a></li> @@ -182,17 +183,19 @@ hardware for testing, our focus will probably remain on inexpensive and readily-available consumer-grade GPS hardware, especially GPS mice.</p> +<h2 id="windows">Windows support (limited)</h2> + <p>The <code>gpsd</code> daemon and most <code>gpsd</code> tools are for -Unix like systems since this is where they are developed and tested.</p> +Unix-like systems since this is where they are developed and tested.</p> -<p>Remote access over sockets via the C library and the simple command -line tools of <code>gpspipe</code> and <code>gpxlogger</code> are -supported on Windows platforms, albeit they currently have some minor +<p>Remote access over sockets via the C library and the simple command-line +tools <code>gpspipe</code> and <code>gpxlogger</code> are +supported on Windows platforms, although they currently have some minor limitations compared to the Unix versions:</p> <ol> <li><code>gpspipe</code> and <code>gpxlogger</code> can not be run as daemons on Windows.</li> - <li><code>gpspipe</code> can not write to the serial port on Windows.</li> + <li><code>gpspipe</code> cannot write to the serial port on Windows.</li> </ol> <h2 id="service">The time and location service</h2> @@ -333,7 +336,7 @@ long-term maintenance burden.</p> <p>Because Python is not used at runtime by the daemon, Python version-skew problem (such as the 2 to 3 transition) essentally -never have any affect on or reveal bugs in the C code.</p> +never have any effect on or reveal bugs in the C code.</p> <p>A significant part of the reason is that in GPSD-world the notion of "target Python" is not actually meaningful for anything but a |