[gpsd-dev] Heads up, GPSD release 3.12 is imminent

[Eric S. Raymond]

This is the 48-hour warning.  Get any final fixes in now.

There have, once again, been few problems this release cycle; the
codebase remains pretty stable.  We could have gone longer without a
release but for the continuing if sporadic reports of excess power
drain due to buzzing on buggy select(2) implementations.

Though the adaptive-delay code was developed and proven on a 
Raspberry Pi, the big win in my judgment is addressing this under
Android.

I may not have been explicit about this before, so I'll state it now:
I consider Android our most important deployment by far. Because
Google Maps; nothing, not even the madly cool stuff like the robot
submarines, matches the real-world impact of a billion smartphones.

We will be shipping with a major bump in object-library and API
versions this time.  Technical pressure for significant changes in the
way the skyview and a few other things are represented had been
building up over the last year.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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