Re: udisks2 [WAS: Re: datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism]

[David Zeuthen <zeuthen gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Johannes Schmid wrote:
>
>> Short note: I removed the "udisks" and "upower" rows as they don't
>> follow the system of showing the part of GNOME using some technologie.
>> Instead those are referred to by the "gnome-disk-utility" and
>> "gnome-control-center/power" rows which is IMHO the correct way.
>
> Speaking of udisks, gnome-disk-utility has now been switched to use
> udisks2;

Note that distributors are free to continue using the old udisks1 (and
udisks2 is parallel installable with udisks1) with gnome-disk-utility
3.2.x series as long as they want.

> I can only guess gvfs will follow.

And gvfs will continue to support the existing gdu and hal backends.

So there is really no pressure to switch to udisks2 ...

> @David: could you confirm this? And do you have any ETA for a udisks2
> tarball?

There is one at http://udisks.freedesktop.org/releases/

Cheers,
David