Frank Nicholas <fr...@nicholasfamilycentral.com>:
> > The hardware management we keep should go into a separate refclockd that
>
> Would refclockd be a part of NTP?
Yes.
>If so, I’d be ok with that. I just have no need for GPSd on a pure time
>server.
That implies a separate question, which is: should both refclockd and gpsd
parse NMEA0183?
I am the world's expert on parsing NMEA0183, expertise gained by a
decade of work on GPSD's driver and dealing with perversities you
could barely even imagine. And I say "Hell, no" *shudder*. I barely
even trust my own parser; I think I have excellent reason not to trust
anyone elses's. There's just too much weird out there.
I am more sure that I am of what I had for breakfast that the refclock 20
parser has significant undiscovered bugs because NMEA parsers *always* do.
This is one of those cases where the best thing is to have just one
high-quality implementation and unit-test the hell out of it.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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