[Sugar-devel] NetworkManager 0.9 (was: Re: Sugar 0.94 - Schedule proposal)

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>> NetworkManager 0.8 and below already supported system connections, so
>> it's not so much a shift as getting rid of one of two options. It might
>> be a good intermediate step to switch to NM 0.8 + system connections
>> (the original plan of SL#1884 [1]).
>
> True, but Sugar never manipulated the system connections or displayed
> them (except for ethernet). You are right in saying that the changes
> aren't too invasive though.
>
>> With my Dextrose hat on, I'd like to see us move to NM 0.9 for the next
>> release. With my Sugar hat on, I'm worried about large changes
>> introducing a lot of regressions, like with Telepathy. While moving to
>> system connections is large enough to be of concern itself, the
>> additional changes required for NM 0.9 increase the risk (though I'm not
>> sure by how much).
>
> What do you mean by "next release"? Sugar 0.96?
>
> Also, which additional changes are you referring to?
>
> I made quite a lot of progress over the weekend in getting NM-0.9
> supported. Like in 0.8 we do not take advantage of much of what NM can
> do, and we have some issues that get carried over from before, but in
> simply maintaining the existing functionality it seems quite low risk
> so far.

do you have a nm09 git branch somewhere?

Peter