Moved solid-wicd to kdereview

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sat Mar 28 15:26:59 GMT 2009


On Saturday 28 March 2009, Dario Freddi wrote:
> On Saturday 28 March 2009 16:15:19 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 March 2009, Dario Freddi wrote:
> > > Hello people,
> > >
> > > I just moved a solid network engine for Wicd in kdereview. Wicd, as
> > > most of you might know, is a popular and very simple alternative to
> > > NetworkManager. Speaking about my engine:
> > >
> > >  - It interfaces 100% with Wicd's DBus interface. No additional deps
> > > other than Qt
> > >  - It interfaces with Wicd 1.6+ (not yet released, but the Wicd team
> > > assured me it will be ready for 4.3)
> > >
> > > The bad:
> > >
> > >  - Wicd is written in python, hence I don't know how to make a cmake
> > > check to check if it is installed and which version it is. Guidance
> > > appreciated.
> >
> > Do you need wicd during building ? If not, then no cmake check is
> > necessary.
>
> No, I don't, Wicd is necessary just at runtime. If so, I don't need to
> check wicd at build time, but rather disable the backend at runtime if wicd
> was not found?

... was not found at runtime.

Yes, I think so.

Alex






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