[Rock-dev] GPSd-client Buildfailure

[Alexander Duda]

On 05/31/2012 11:01 AM, Matthias Goldhoorn wrote:
> On 31.05.2012 10:52, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
>> On 05/31/2012 09:27 AM, Matthias Goldhoorn wrote:
>>> I take care about that, should be already fixed and build on
>>> buildserver  is already restarted.
>>>
>>> Problem was caused by an to old version of libgps on debian ->
>>> Interfaces was not compatible.
>>> Added an version check in cmakelists and #ifdef't the codeblocks
>> OK ... I started that thread on the wrong foot. My apologies.
> it's ok...
>> Let's start again.
>>
>> What I should have said is:
>>
>> "Do you know that the gps orogen project already has a GPSd-compatible
>> orogen task (originally written by Alex) ? Given that
>> drivers/orogen/gps is the project that defines GPS-specific types,
>> just starting a duplicate project does not seem like a good idea.
>>
>> What I'd like to suggest is:
>>
>>   - for the time being, use the task in drivers/orogen/gps
>>   - if you really feel like it, discuss how the refactoring should go
>>     between the common typekit (with satellite info, ...) on the ML and
>>     move the GPSDTask in your new project once that refactoring is
>>     implemented.
>>
>> Thoughts ?"
>
> I agree to this, for now the gps is absolut fine, simple not saw that
> its also supports the generic devices.
> In long term we could separate this, for now i remove the gpsd-client
> from the build.
>
> In long term we need to discuss about "generic" datatypes at all. We
> have these (gps) cases where data types should not be defined within
> package, and neither in base/types.
>
> So i think we should start collection's of datatypes.
> - MotionCommands
> - EnviorementalTypes (gps, map infomation...?)
> - ... ?
>
> But i think this is not an discussion for now...

I am bit disappointed that people are not using the mailing list more 
often to prevent thinks like this.
There are no stupid questions, only answers that add to your knowledge.

Alex

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