Re: A gripe and some questions

[Nick <nick-nospam codesniffer com>]

> it's hard to provide redundancy for this stuff
Why?  Perhaps I'm missing something, but if multiple sources exist, why
not support all of them (much in the same way GARNOME supports multiple
FTP sites for source downloads).  Even if each weather reporting service
has a unique interface/format, you can create a common interface and
package each separately.  When one fails, move to the next.

Regards,
Nick G.

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 09:09, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Nick">
> 
> > > I believe this breakage is due to where the data is retrieved from,
> > If I revert to my old Gnome, the weather applet still works fine.  Do
> > they get the data from different sources?  Seems they should have a list
> > of sources for redundancy.
> 
> The 2.3 weather applet was using a new source, it's hard to provide
> redundancy for this stuff, and because of the problems, it is being reverted
> to the 2.2 version for the 2.4 release (unless we can sort some of the
> problems out).
> 
> - Jeff