[FOSS-GPS] Request for a release (was: First impressions of FoxtrotGPS on the Freerunner)

[Guilhem Bonnefille]

I follow FoxtrotGPS development since its early days. I'm really happy
to learn that it reached a state where it could be compiled for
Freerunner.

IMHO, as some milestones where reached, I think it is time to release
the first public version of FoxtrotGPS and add a "Download" link to
main website. Of course, this version will not be tagged as "stable",
but it is really important to release public version to offer more
visibility on the project. Since a release is done, many fans (like
me) will be able to announce this version on different media (like
blogs, mailing lists, or software directories). These announces will
then bring new users and certainly new contributors. Furthermore,
packagers will then be able to prepare package for distributions,
touching new users and potentially new contributors... and so on...

So please, release the first 0.1, or 0.0.1 or 0.0.0.1 like you want. :-)

As there is many experiment around foxtrotGPS, I also suggest to offer
hosting for release from experimental branch like the work done by
Sander. For example, such release will be renamed (like
foxtrotgps-sander or foxtrotgps-freerunner or foxtrotgps-gta02...).

Thank you all guys (and girls?)!

2010/5/27 Sander van Grieken <sander at 3v8.net>:
> Ehh maybe not.
>
> These are just packages built from my own branch, and really need to be merged to trunk
> first before releasing them under the foxtrotgps banner.
>
> Besides, the package is crippled in that the OSD is disabled, and that now libgps is a
> requirement, which makes it probably a less than smooth experience because AFAIK it is
> incompatible with fso-gpsd.
>
> I have renamed the packages to reflect they're not an official release..
>
> grtz,
> Sander
>
>
> On Thursday 27 May 2010 14:12:00 Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
>> Awesome Sander, first public packages of FoxtrotGPS!
>>
>> Please forward this to openmoko-community mailing list to share the
>> packages with people over there, I'm sure they'll be interested!
>>
>> Would be nice to have these packages referenced at foxtrotgps.org, so
>> that people ending there having Freerunners in their pockets could try
>> it without need for compiling.
>>
>> r
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Sander van Grieken <sander at 3v8.net> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Today I compiled foxtrotgps for the freerunner and did some initial tests, mostly to
> see
>> > if foxtrotgps is faster or slower than tangogps.
>> >
>> > Overall, it seems to be just as fast (and probably faster in some cases), except when
>> > dragging the map.
>> >
>> > In order to make it a fair comparison I disabled the OSD entirely, because that's the
> way
>> > tangogps handles things when map-dragging. When 'slowly' dragging (couple of
>> > pixels/second) it's just as fast as tangogps, but when dragging 'faster' (i.e. larger
>> > distances) it stops updating the view, until you stop dragging, or drag slower again.
> So
>> > maybe there are some inefficiencies in osm-gps-map when exposing new parts of the
>> > underlying pixmap to the view.
>> >
>> > For those that want to see for themselves, I put the foxtrotgps ipk's and its deps
> online
>> > here:
>> >
>> > http://www.outrightsolutions.nl/~sander/openmoko/foxtrotgps/
>> >
>> > Since it now uses libgps and not fso-gpsd you might run into difficulties actually
> getting
>> > live GPS data, but for me that's not a priority right now :)
>> >
>> > grtz,
>> > Sander
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