[Sugar-devel] NetworkManager 0.8 ---> 0.9

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> On 12 April 2011 00:37, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> NetworkManager broke API compatibility with the latest version 0.9 [1][2].
>> This means we have to switch to the new API sooner or later. F15, which
>> includes NM 0.9, does hit that issue already - hence you can not connect to
>> an AP anymore.
>>
>> This is an item that should go into 0.94 and F15 might carry a patch (if we
>> get one - help welcome).
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Simon
>>
>> [1]
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-March/msg00020.html
>> [2]
>> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/migrating-to-09/ref-migrating.html
>
> Are there any plans to support NetworkManager more wholly?
>
> Sugar (at least the 0.84 on OLPC OS) seems to store network
> information separately, which means that we can't leverage gconf or
> share settings with the system or GNOME. It would be much easier if
> Sugar stored network settings in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. This
> would let us leverage the full feature set of NetworkManager, and it
> also lets connections be shared with GNOME.

NetworkManager 0.9 moves to that model completely so it will happen as
part of 0.94

Peter