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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2010-12-16 18:27:18 -0500
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2010-12-16 18:27:18 -0500
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Abolish gpsd_report.c. No more hardwired logging from the client libraries.
Only the daemon now uses this function.
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= GPSD Client HOWTO =
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
-v1.2, April 2010
+v1.3, December 2010
This document is mastered in asciidoc format. If you are reading it
in HTML, you can find the original at
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ that in at least the following ways:
Time to fix after a power-on matters because in many use cases for
GPSes they're running off a battery, and you can't afford to keep them
powered when you don't actually need location data. This is why GPS
-sensors are usually designed to go to a low-power mode when you close
+sensors are sometimes designed to go to a low-power mode when you close
the serial port they're attached to.
AIS receivers have a simpler set of constraints. They report
@@ -399,5 +399,9 @@ In major versions before 5:
a different return convention. The name 'poll()' will at some point
be reintroduced as an interface to the wire-protocol POLL command.
+* Clients needed to define a gpsd_report() function for c;ient-side logging
+ if they didn't want code in netlib.c and libgps_core.c to occasionally
+ senfd messages to stderr. This requirement is now gone.
+
See http://gpsd.berlios.de/future.html#api_cleanup[Client API Cleanup]
for details.