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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sebas

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