Re: Removing the worst cruft

2016-07-31 Thread Mark Atwood
Good point. On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 8:13 PM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Hal Murray : > > > Can the palisade/trimble driver be replaced with a parse driver? > > > > I doubt it, but I'm far from familiar with the parse driver. > > > > Based on Eric's previous comments, the parse driver handles devices

Re: Removing the worst cruft

2016-07-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > Can the palisade/trimble driver be replaced with a parse driver? > > I doubt it, but I'm far from familiar with the parse driver. > > Based on Eric's previous comments, the parse driver handles devices that > provide the time in an easy to parse format. TSIP might fit that if a

Re: Removing the worst cruft

2016-07-31 Thread Hal Murray
> Can the palisade/trimble driver be replaced with a parse driver? I doubt it, but I'm far from familiar with the parse driver. Based on Eric's previous comments, the parse driver handles devices that provide the time in an easy to parse format. TSIP might fit that if all goes well. But there

Re: Removing the worst cruft

2016-07-31 Thread Mark Atwood
Can the palisade/trimble driver be replaced with a parse driver? On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 4:23 PM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Hal Murray : > > > > e...@thyrsus.com said: > > > Drivers that very well might fail the ten-year test: truetime, > magnavox, > > > palisade, oncore, jupiter. > > > > Palisade

Re: Removing the worst cruft

2016-07-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > e...@thyrsus.com said: > > Drivers that very well might fail the ten-year test: truetime, magnavox, > > palisade, oncore, jupiter. > > Palisade is in use. It covers Trimble TSIP which includes the Thunderbolt > which was widely available surplus only a few years ago and is pop