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Re: ✘ Release blockers?


From: Gary E. Miller
Subject: Re: ✘ Release blockers?
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 12:48:14 -0800

Yo James!

How about making that an MR against gpsd.xml?

On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 10:22:18 -0800
James Browning <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, at 6:11 PM Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
> > "Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:  
> > >> But seriously, for the nerd audience, do enough people really
> > >> want imperial units to have that as the default?  
> > >
> > > I would hope the non-nerd audience is bigger than the nerd one.  
> >
> > In terms of all the people that use gpsd, I really cannot believe
> > that a majority would prefe imperial units.  I would think it's at
> > least 9:1 metric, if not higher.  My logic is that everyone who
> > isn't in the US, Liberia or Burma prefers metric, and that more
> > than half of US people that play with GPS want metric too.
> >  
> > > Unix is choice, just set XGPSOPTS.  
> 
> (blatherskite exposition bomb warning)
> 
> The value of XPGSOPTS is prepended to the command line arguments. The
> default unit system here is None which triggers the stuff int the next
> paragraph. Each instance of -u followed by a value overrides the
> previous value.
> 
> The environment variable GPSD_UNITS is then checked to change away
> from the default of unspecified you could set it to 'imperial',
> 'metric', or 'nautical'.
> 
> If no selection has been made LC_MEASUREMENT is checked. A value of C,
> POSIX, or starting with en_US sets imperial units. Any other set value
> yields metric. Then the immediately preceding checks are run using the
> value of LANG (if set).
> 
> If the value is still unspecified units are temporarily set to be
> undefined, which IIRC gets squashed to metric.  Liberia is never
> mentioned.
> 
> The checks should probably drop LC_MEASUREMENT or LANG value of C, or
> POSIX setting imperial units.
> 
> It might be possible to drag Liberia into imperial units. The more
> likely outcome is kicking en_US starting values out.
> 




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