Gypsy 0.7

Earlier in the week someone pointed out over email that considering the entire geolocalisation thing is starting to come together, it's not great that Gypsy (the modern GPS daemon for the modern desktop) appears dead. Well, it's not quite dead, and to prove it I fixed the bugs that were stopping me from uploading it into Debian. Specifically, the hard requirement to run it as root and the lack of DBus auto-starting (to be fair, when it was written this wasn't supported on the system bus). These are now fixed at last and Gypsy 0.7 is available to download from freedesktop.org.

Packages for Debian are in the upload queue now, and I believe everyones favourite frockney is working on updating Fedora now.

NP: Oneric, Boxcutter

15:52 Thursday, 06 Aug 2009 [#] [computers] (7 comments)

Posted by iain at Thu Aug 6 16:05:17 2009:
YEY...
Posted by Sohail at Thu Aug 6 16:44:31 2009:
Hey, had never heard of Gypsy. What is your motivation? Are you using this on a handheld?
Posted by Ross at Thu Aug 6 16:56:31 2009:
I think the Gypsy web site covers "why" pretty well: http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/why-not-gpsd.html
Posted by Bastien at Thu Aug 6 17:00:43 2009:
The frockney says it's already built in rawhide for Fedora users.
Posted by Karl Lattimer at Thu Aug 6 17:34:10 2009:
Frockney LOL, that just made my day
Posted by Craig at Thu Aug 6 17:47:16 2009:
Now if Geoclue would come to life, Geolocation would be in great shape!
Posted by Ralph Aichinger at Thu Aug 6 19:48:10 2009:
Thanks a lot, Ross! This is truely wonderful!

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