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Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO |
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Thu, 5 May 2016 18:18:50 -0400 |
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Frank Nicholas <address@hidden>:
> > 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>
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, (continued)
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Frank Nicholas, 2016/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Gary E. Miller, 2016/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Norton Allen, 2016/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Clark B. Wierda, 2016/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Norton Allen, 2016/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Gary E. Miller, 2016/05/05
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Hal Murray, 2016/05/06
Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Eric S. Raymond, 2016/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Frank, 2016/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Eric S. Raymond, 2016/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Frank, 2016/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Gary E. Miller, 2016/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Frank Nicholas, 2016/05/06
- Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Gary E. Miller, 2016/05/06
Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO, Frank, 2016/05/05