Vincent Untz wrote:
Le vendredi 30 mars 2012, à 07:02 +0400, Ilya Chernykh a écrit :
There is a very much negative review of udisks2 http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/ which claims that udisks2 is a Gnome-specific tool and will render many applications incompatible until rewritten.
If this is true I would very much oppose including udisks2 in openSUSE without a thorough preparation.
What do you think about this?
I didn't even bother to read the blog post because:
- your summary of the post makes me feel it's just a rant, and I'm not interested in rants
It is but you should read it nevertheless. And also the linked blog post that tells why udisks had to be rewritten. Sounds like it got rewritten just for the fun of trying out some new cool libs.
- we're not removing udisks, we're simply adding udisks2
- udisks2 and udisks are parallel-installable and can run at the same time
Which is silly. A simple operation like requesting to mount a disk has to be considered a basic operating system service. It doesn't make sense to have several competing deamons implement that. It also doesn't make sense to change the function signature for that operation all the time. There needs to be a stable API for such a feature. GNOME is not the only user of the function. Think of it like a basic shared library, just implemented via DBus. It's probably fine if Mr. Z decides that the model he used in the backend is suboptimal and that he needs to rewrite everything in order for the disk partitioning front-end of GNOME to be even more prettier. The rewrite should keep the common API parts stable though. Shared library speak: adding new functions is fine, modifying or deleting existing ones is not. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org