RE: gnome-3.16.x without systemd

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> > > > Subject: Re: gnome-3.16.x without systemd
> > > >
> > > > 2. systemd-shim (limited support for some of the systemd apis)
-development halted
> > systemd-shim is not an reimplementation of logind, its a wrapper to
allow
> > the use of systemd logind and a few other
> > components without requiring systemd init. It certainly provides enough
> > for a full GNOME support up to 3.14 and
> > probably 3.16, we were using it in Ubuntu GNOME up until the recent
switch
> > to systemd init, and it worked well.
> >
> > I don't know where you heard development is halted, Canonical will 
> > need to keep maintaining it so long as they still have
> > upstart in the archives.
> I based the comment on the fact that the last commit to
https://github.com/desrt/systemd-shim
> was Dec-14, but maybe Ubuntu uses a different git repo?
>
> That notwithstanding, I'm trying to make 3.16.x work and the only way
forward would seem to be to
> debug the "gnome-shell.desktop failed to register" error, hence the
request for help :)
>
bump?