On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Laurens Van Houtven<[email protected]> wrote:
> Right now it only supports NMEA. The old system supported Rockwell as > well. What I'd like to hear from you (you mostly being potential users > of this piece of code): do you care about Rockwell (aka Zodiac) > support? If you're just using twisted.protocols.gps now, I'm > interested in hearing from you as well of course :-) The default assumption, if nobody replies to this, should be that nobody is using Rockwell support and we can safely deprecate it without a replacement. > SiRF support for now is probably out of the question. It's a whole > different ball game. Parsing it is *hard* (it's much more complicated > than just a binary representation of the same data). For the time being (at least, for the purposes of including a new implementation in Twisted), I don't think we need to worry about this - it would be great to file an enhancement later, but we don't have it yet so we shouldn't have to consider it to improve the implementation of existing protocols. > Replies welcome, alternatively you can usually catch me at this email > address or as lvh on freenode (in the usual suspects: #python, > #twisted...) I would appreciate it if we could keep the discussion, or at least the conclusions of this discussion, archived in some relevant place. The mailing list could be a good be a good place to start the discussion, but there should be a ticket, and the ticket should link to that discussion. Similarly, if you talk about it on #twisted, you should attach a comment at the end of that conversation, pasting any conclusions that happened there. (You shouldn't really talk about it on #python. It's a difficult place to have a focused technical discussion.) Sorry if this all seems overly fussy, but repetitive discussions and half-remembered conclusions are the bane of open source in general, and have long been a problem on Twisted specifically. A little bit of effort to record everything on a ticket now will save someone — maybe even you — a lot of effort in a couple of months when they're looking at it in a few months if you get distracted and can't work on it. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list [email protected] http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
