Fwd: udisks2 and gnome-disk-utility

[Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>]

gnome-disk-utility now depends on udisks2:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Zeuthen <zeuthen gmail com>
Date: 21 January 2012 18:33
Subject: Re: udisks2 [WAS: Re: datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism]
To: Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>
Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org


Hi,

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
>
> 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/


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