Re: Code freeze break request

Hi David,

Le vendredi 07 mars 2008, =E0 13:58 -0500, David Zeuthen a =E9crit :
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:07 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Well, since gnome-volume-manager is still not dead and it still managing
> > digital cameras (even with Matthias patch to disable mount and
> > multimedia stuff), user will get notification.
> =

> Think about it. If that is true then we had a bug before Alex's patch to
> disable the gphoto2 backend (we'd get multiple notifications). IOW,
> probably needs patching of g-v-m. Someone should check that.
> =

> (And, on a more general note, it's too bad that GNOME is so worried
> about app compat that we're turning off new and shiny gvfs features.
> What makes it especially ridiculous (and inexcusable) is that vendors
> have the source already and can fix the offending apps.. and there's
> always the unmount wrapper too. Kinda makes me wonder what the hell the
> point is and why I bothered writing a gphoto2 backend at all.)

Let me disagree: it's bad to give no notice to people that things will
break if they don't update something. We have to notify maintainers of
the relevant applications. Let's give them 6 months.

Vincent

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