Re: ✘ Release blockers?

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:48:26 -0800 (PST)
> Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > > 2) The rename of the altitude field has an interoperability issue
> > > > with other GPSD versions.  The client and server can be on
> > > > different machines, and not necessarily the same version.  At
> > > > least one direction should be fixable with a bit of fallback code.
> > >
> > > I restored "alr"/"altitude" and marked it deprecated and undefined.
> >
> > I'm not sure that alone is enough to fix it, but I'll try it when I
> > get a chance.
>
> I restored what I took out, so it has all the bugs that it had before.

That's not sufficient.  More on this later.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 20:10:40 -0800 (PST)
> > Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > 1) The C++ build breakage related to timespec_str.  I already have
> > > a tentative fix for that, but just as I was about to test it, I ran
> > > into a disk-space issue for my VMs, which I'm in the process of
> > > sorting out.  The whole C++ area is pretty much a mess, but at least
> > > this can make it no worse than it used to be.
>
> I am unable to duplicate this.  Is it still a problem for anyone?

One needs the qt and/or libgpsmm options to see it.  Those are supposed to 
be independent, but they seem to have become not so, which is something 
else that needs investigating.

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:02:08 -0800 (PST)
> Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:48:26 -0800 (PST)
> > > Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > After getting the VM setup working again, I ran across another
> > > > regression which I fixed.
> > >
> > > I don't see any new patches?
> >
> > I hadn't planned to push anything until I have clean results across
> > all platforms.
>
> Can't we at least see the work to date?

No time now.  Monday.

Fred Wright