<div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/15 Eckhart Wörner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ewoerner@kde.org">ewoerner@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everybody,<br>
<br>
I want to open another "slaughtering old stuff" thread, this time it's about<br>
kppp. :-)<br>
<br>
1) Mobile broadband today is handled by tools like NetworkManager in a much<br>
more automated way.<br>
<br>
2) Plain old dial-up is barely used anymore.<br>
<br>
3) For plain old dial-up, there is also an alternative: wvdial plasmoid,<br>
<a href="http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/wvdial+plasmoid?content=101481" target="_blank">http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/wvdial+plasmoid?content=101481</a><br>
The plasmoid seems to have some users and is sometimes even suggested in<br>
forums, in contrast to kppp.<br>
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4) Looking at svn, kppp got little to no love in the last few years.<br>
<br>
5) I just learnt that beginning with SC 4.4, FreeBSD doesn't even ship kppp<br>
anymore ([21:16:43] <rakuco> it doesn't compile).<br>
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Therefore I propose to move kppp out of kdenetwork and into unmaintained stuff.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div> </div><div>I know quite a bit of people who use kppp in Ukraine including for 3g modems. I think they would be quite upset if it's gone.<br>
<br>Andriy<br></div></div><br>