Network Management to extragear/network
Sebastian Kügler
sebas at kde.org
Wed Nov 4 12:38:08 CET 2009
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:54:30 Will Stephenson wrote:
> I'd like to propose that the Network Management stack
> (libs,knetworkmanager,plasmoid) moves to extragear/network in time for KDE
> 4.4. This way it's released but still has the schedule flexibility to
> react to changes in NetworkManager and possibly other network management
> backend systems.
The Plasmoid is not ready yet, and might not be in time for 4.4. It's also not easy
to split off. I'd not build it for now so we don't have people accidentally using it
and then wonder why it doesn't work. I hope I can get some substantial improvements
in in time for 4.4, but there's a good chance that it won't be ready. Having the
plasmoid separate would certainly not help development of it, but I'm happy with a
separate review of this piece of code when the time comes. I hope people are OK with
this modus operandi?
That said, the other components are good to go into 4.4. They're being released by at
least two distros in their standard install and Will has been fixing bugs left and
right to make it solid.
> Does anyone disagree with this?
I think it's a good idea. Maybe kdebase is even a better (I consider connecting to
networks basic functionality), but as you note, upstream (networkmanager, connman,
wicd, ...) might require intermediate releases. We could probably still do those,
even if we end up in kdebase, of course.
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