Re: [Gaim-devel] Network Manager

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:43:40AM -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:31:17 -0500, Luke Schierer wrote
> > I am not debating the potential usefullness of Network Manager
> > integration.
> > 
> > However, someone needs to be maintaining it.  It is decidedly buggy. 
> >  A quick glance at our tracker reveils bugs 1650380, 1649500,
> >  1648433, 1641894 and 1603919.  I know there are also bugs relating 
> > to it in the debian and ubuntu trackers.  It has also caused non-
> > trivial numbers of bug reports in #gaim.  Some of these are just 
> > annoyances of varying severity, others are crashes.
> > 
> > If no one wants to take & fix these bugs, we ought to seriously consider
> > pulling or disabling the nm code until such a time as someone wants 
> > to take care of it.
> > 
> > luke
> 
> Can we have it disabled by default and add a "(buggy)" note to ./configure --help?
> 
> -Mark
> 

That's fine, it will effectively stop innocent unsuspecting users from
hitting its bugs. :-)

luke