Re: [gpsd-dev] OS X dropped. How I think about our platform priorities

[Eric S. Raymond]

Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:
> On 02/18/2015 07:21 PM, address@hidden (Eric S. Raymond) wrote:
> > In my opinion it's Android and the embedded deployments like OpenWRT
> > that are the really big deal these days. Certainly they completely
> > dominate our numbers, with firmware instances literally into the
> > billions.
> > 
> > Correspondingly, GPSD on laptop Linux and *BSDs is not as functionally
> > important as it used to be.
> 
> That is imho not true in times where a default kde installation libgps to
> retrieve location information.
> 
> So only in Debian we have ~18000 installations of libgps20
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libgps20
> 
> and as soon as jessie is released I expect the same numbers for libgps21.
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libgps21

That is interesting information, thanks.  But ~18000 is statistical noise 
compared to the embedded deployments.  There's at least four orders of
magnitude difference there!
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