Gypsy 0.5 released

[Iain <iain gnome org>]

Gypsy

Everyone seems to have a GPS these days. Cars have them, phones have
them, even educated fleas have them. But GPS devices have problems.
GPS devices can only talk to one program at a time and they talk an
obscure language called NMEA. What is needed is some sort of middle
man, someone who likes to talk to GPS devices, knows their language
but also knows how to talk to clients. Gypsy is one such middle man.

Gypsy is a GPS multiplexing daemon that uses D-Bus and emits signals
on the system bus as GPS data changes allowing clients to just sit
back and wait to be informed about changes. Gypsy uses very fine
grained signals which allows clients to only listen to the information
that they are interested in and they won't be woken up when something
they don't care about happens. This allows Gypsy clients to lower
power consumption and makes it suitable for embedded devices.

Gypsy also comes with LibGypsy, a GObject based C library wrapper that
turns the gypsy D-Bus signals into GObject signals to easier
integration into GUI programs.

Website: http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy/
Downloads: http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy-releases/
API Documentation: http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/reference/html/index.html
Tutorial: http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy-tutorial.html
Bugtracker: http://bugzilla.o-hand.com

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