Move kppp away from kdenetwork

[Bèrto ëd Sèra]

It's not only the Ukraine. Most of the 3rd world is dialing and will
probably be for 10 more years.

Bèrto

On 16 August 2010 01:33, Andriy Rysin <arysin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/8/15 Eckhart Wörner <ewoerner at kde.org>
>
> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I want to open another "slaughtering old stuff" thread, this time it's
>> about
>> kppp. :-)
>>
>> 1) Mobile broadband today is handled by tools like NetworkManager in a
>> much
>> more automated way.
>>
>> 2) Plain old dial-up is barely used anymore.
>>
>> 3) For plain old dial-up, there is also an alternative: wvdial plasmoid,
>> http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/wvdial+plasmoid?content=101481
>> The plasmoid seems to have some users and is sometimes even suggested in
>> forums, in contrast to kppp.
>>
>> 4) Looking at svn, kppp got little to no love in the last few years.
>>
>> 5) I just learnt that beginning with SC 4.4, FreeBSD doesn't even ship
>> kppp
>> anymore ([21:16:43] <rakuco> it doesn't compile).
>>
>> Therefore I propose to move kppp out of kdenetwork and into unmaintained
>> stuff.
>>
>
> 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.
>
> Andriy
>
>


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