Re: Anyone going to be using ConsoleKit for 3.16 ?

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:36:36PM -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> > Can't we hide it behind a --this-is-going-away-in-3.18 configure switch?
> That was certainly a possibility, but, what's the advantage of doing
> it?  The bug Antoine pointed to shows that distros that use ConsoleKit
> in 3.14 are already shipping patches to keep it working. No one who
> has chimed in has said that one more would be a big deal.
> And this is really only for one release, by 3.18 everyone should be
> using the newer apis, and then the patches will go away.
>
> It wouldn't be a big deal to deprecate for a release but no one who
> will be using ConsoleKit in 3.16 advocated for that.  And cutting out
> the code is a net win for the codebase, so I'd rather do it now than
> later.

Because I'm wondering if we're reaching everyone with this announcement,
and it is a bit late in the cycle. Having a configure option would not
mean it is suddenly gone (if they miss this email, they'd also not know
about the patch), but it clearly tells them it'll be gone.

-- 
Regards,
Olav