[Sugar-devel] adding 3G support to Sugar (was Re: Sugarizing an application)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:18:51PM -0800, Peter Robinson wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:14:38AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:10 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think I've seen Ubuntu handling this UI design issue by building 
>>>> a data set of providers.  It might be possible to piggy back on 
>>>> some of that work.
>>>
>>> Well NetworkManager in Fedora which we already use has all that 
>>> support already so we don't need to piggy back off anything as the 
>>> tools we use already support all of what we require. All that needs 
>>> to be done is to extend the sugar interface to add the 3G support 
>>> that's already in NM.
>>
>> If you want this for _Sugar_ then please do not just rely on a 
>> specific distro, but document in an INSTALL file what it is from that 
>> particular distro that you rely on - so that other distros can mimic 
>> that.
>>
>> If you are not targeting Sugar but just a specific distribution of it 
>> like, say, SoaS, then obviously you need not document anything.  But 
>> it would be sad if you do not target Sugar globally.
>
>NetworkManager is distribution agnostic so its not targetted at
>specific distributions as NM support multiple distros undernearth.
>That's the advantage of it and one of the reasons its ued!

I am perfectly aware that NetworkManager is cross-distro.

You, not me, talked about Fedora as a reason to not depend on anything 
new (isn't "depend" the meaning of "piggy back"?).

I simply point out a general recommendation to document whatever you 
choose to depend on - no matter if it is cross-platform or not.

KDE is cross-platform too.  You probably do not want to depend on 
*everything* available in Fedora, right?


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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