Re: release?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

On Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:57:17 -0800 (PST)
Fred Wright <fw@fwright.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Dec 2022, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> 
> > I'm not hearing much about testing.  Anyone testing?  Anyone need
> > more time before a release?  
> 
> End of year isn't the best time for such things. :-)

I've been trying for 2 months now...

> I didn't see any issues with build/check on a wide variety of
> platforms. But the skyview spasticity is still present.  It can be
> seen with cgps, xgps, or xgpsspeed (xgps being the most obvious).
> I'm using a uBlox M9N receiver with a multi-system antenna.

That is because your GNSS is being spastic about sending sky data.
There is no right answer, short of fixing the receiver firmware.

I do have some ideas for after the release to add a lot of latency and
reduce flicker.  My guess is it will have to be an optionas the extra
latency will annoy many.

> With the 3.24 xgps (and the latest gpsd), both Sats Seen and Sats
> Used toggle between zero and values that are probably correct.  With
> the current xgps (and still the latest gpsd), Sats Used is reasonably
> stable (varying a bit as one would expect; right now ~18), but Sats
> Seen toggles between two very different values (right now 32 vs. 40),
> where the larger is probably correct.

You can thank NMEA 4.11 for that.  It has to do with the way the
receiver dribbles out the sky data.

> I see similar issues with gpsmon,

gpsmon is dead to me.  Way too many bugs, it wass never intended as anything
but a developer tool, and never got that right.

RGDS
GARY
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