Re: ANN: Release of NetworkManager 0.8.996 (0.9.0-beta2)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 21:30 +0300, Mikhail Efremov wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:25:20 -0600 Dan Williams wrote:
> > States are renumbered since there are now 3 connected states (LOCAL,
> > SITE, GLOBAL) depending on the network connectivity.  There's also a new
> > DISCONNECTING state that will eventually facilitate Debian's
> > long-standing request for a "pre-down" event.  There's also space
> > between the states in case in the future we want to add more without
> > breaking API.
> 
> Thanks for the answer, but I still do not understand why it just does
> not add the new states at the end of the enum. But since you have
> already submitted the patches, I think it's too late to change anything.

Mainly to keep consistency, provide some space for later additions in
the middle of the list, and to allow clients to use > and < when doing
comparisons on states.  IE:

if (state > DISCONNECTED)

etc.

Dan