Re: systemd as external dependency

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:53 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 à 15:47 +0100, Alberto Ruiz a écrit : 
> > Resources are scarce, and I'm afraid that Sun/Oracle  (and I'm talking
> > as an ex-Sun that worked closely with the Solaris Desktop guys here)
> > or any other group that cares about GNOME in other platforms can't
> > expect that the GNOME community should carry the burden of cross
> > platform support itself.
> 
> Nobody has ever asked the GNOME community to do that. Actually, nobody
> even asked the Debian GNOME team to do that for non-Linux ports. But we
> could always integrate the necessary patches to support BSD (and even
> Hurd!) when people wrote them.
> 
> For systemd this is another story, since Lennart always made it very
> clear that a port to another OS would have to live in another
> repository. Telling people to do the porting job is one thing, telling
> them to maintain a complete fork is another one.

I don't see that as a huge problem. Currently, it's up to us to provide
support for the different platforms (in the shape of various ifdefs and
services that support multiple distributions).

Moving those to a D-Bus API we can rely on means that we have less code
to maintain, and that we can easily point at projects such as systemd,
or the implementer of those other D-Bus APIs for other systems, when
problems occur.