Re: no vpn plugin tarballs for 0.6

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

On 03/05/2006 11:25 AM, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 10:34 -0500, j bootlab org wrote:
>
> > nice to see that 0.6 is out, where can i find the latest tarballs for
> > the vpn plugins, vpnc, openvpn and pptp. would be nice to see those at
> > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/0.6/
>
> Unfortunately, the way ftp.gnome.org works I am not sure that we can do
> this.  It is fairly automated and we may be unable to submit tarballs to
> directories that don't match the module name.
>
> The other issue is that these releases are not in sync.  E.g., there was
> not a corresponding release of the VPN plugins (nor does there need to
> be), so we do not necessarily have something to release.
>
> I agree it would be nice to get tarballs of these packages up.  I can
> talk with the gnome.org folks and see what we can do other than created
> n new modules for all of the VPN plugins.

Why not create a new module?  We don't need one for every VPN 
implementation, but I think NetworkManager-VPN would be an acceptable 
module.  See e.g. epiphany-extensions, gnome-games-extra-data, etc.