Re: NetworkManager

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 16:49 -0400, Seth Nickell wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:28:36 +0100, Mike Hearn <mike navi cx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:03:33 -0400, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > We unfortunately haven't been vocal about this but for the past couple
> > > months Dan Williams has been working on NetworkManager, a network policy
> > > layer for HAL and the freedesktop.org stack in general. See
> > > "NetworkManager" module in CVS. Its in GNOME CVS atm, but only the
> > > applet and thin info caching daemon are GNOME specific.
> > 
> > Are you going to mention this to the KDE developers, and/or move the core
> > development to freedesktop subversions/cvs?
> 
> We are planning to move to freedesktop.org CVS. The DBus pieces
> already call themselves org.freedesktop.NetworkManager*. Its currently
> in GNOME cvs because Dan didn't have a fd.o CVS account.... and we are
> lazy :-)
>  
> > It'd be nice if all the major desktops and distros could standardise on
> > the same bit of code here.
> 
> That's what we're hoping for....

This is how autogen.sh ends for me:
<output>

checking for /etc/mandrake-release... no
checking for /etc/redhat-release... no
checking for /etc/fedora-release... no
checking for /etc/gentoo-release... no
checking for /etc/debian_version... yes
Your distribution(debian) is not yet supported!  (patches welcome)
</output>

And in the TODO file I can read this:
<file>

- Support static IP addresses

We need to support static IP addresses for interfaces.  This should be
done by parsing the normal /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files.

</file>


I don't mean to be harsh, but I expect more of a standard, [1] the GST
backends are almost in a 1.0 stage, support lots of distros, will be
distributed separatedly after gnome 2.8 (and gst 1.0) and will be
proposed to fdo. They are thought for this kind of problems, why not
using them?

	Carlos


[1] I'm getting tired of telling this again and again




> -Seth
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