Re: network-manager-applet release

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 3/13/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 03:47 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 12.03.2007, 19:34 -0700 schrieb Elijah Newren:
> > > it'd be great to have a tarball release.  In fact, nm-applet can't be
> > > included in the GNOME release without having a tarball release to
> > > include.  I'm very tempted to just request that nm-applet be
> > > re-proposed for inclusion in 2.20, but maybe if we get a tarball
> > > quickly...

> I don't think it's really going to work out since the schedules are
> somewhat different.  There likely won't be a NM 0.6.5 release for
> another week or two since there's a crash or two in LEAP support that I
> feel need to be nailed before that happens.  I'm not sure it makes sense
> to release an applet with LEAP support when the main daemon is still
> 0.6.4 and doesn't support LEAP.  Even so, there shouldn't be an
> incompatibility between the two even if the versions are different for
> the 0.6.x line.  But if the only reason people are asking for this to be
> shotgunned through is to "get it in a gnome release" it's a commit and
> make distcheck away, but I don't like that.

Ah, ok, thanks for the update.  It sounds as if Robert's proposal for
network-manager-applet into GNOME 2.18 was just a bit premature.
Perhaps we can shoot for 2.20 and get it re-proposed?

Thanks for all the hard work,
Elijah