[Portland] Current plan summarized

Lubos Lunak l.lunak at suse.cz
Wed Mar 15 20:16:45 EET 2006


On Wednesday 15 March 2006 18:03, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> >On Tuesday 14 March 2006 22:43, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >> Do you want to require ISVs to ship a fallback daemon?
> >
> > If it shows to be the best way, yes. It's not like it'd be rocket science.
>
> I wasn't thinking about in terms of "rocket science" more in terms of
> "can of worms". Either you make a fallback deamon that doesn't depend on
> desktop specific libraries, in which case you can just as well include
> it in the Interface Library itself. Or you make a fallback daemon that
> _does_ depend on desktop specific libraries and then you end up in
> distro version hell.

 Hmm ... bummer ... I think you have a point there. And dropping this idea 
will actually solve for me some problems. Ok, everybody just ignore the 
nonsense about fallback daemon, I'll instead provide library hooks or 
something.

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