David Zeuthen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:08 +0100, Ali Abdallah wrote: > >> Are you able to give satisfying answer now? >> > > Yes. > What is it?
> >> i don't understand what is the benefit of changing the D-Bus >> name and involving developers/packagers in a extra work for >> just nothing. >> > > This could have been the case with any new DeviceKit-disks release as we > specifically never promised any ABI or API stability whatsoever - the > NEWS file is very clear on that. At least udisks will provide some level > of ABI stability. > I'm not speaking about the API/ABI stability, we all are expecting changes here, but i never expected changes in the package name itself and the D-Bus service name(s), and i dunno how this change is going to provide more ABI stability as you said! i'm the author of the Xfce power manager and i was ready to release a devkit version with HAL free+a small battery plugin for our panel, but now things started to be even more complicated to us, specially for the core desktop. I really don't understand what is the benefit of changing the name, the switch from HAL to devkit was understandable, but now please please please STOP. > David > Best Regards. > > _______________________________________________ > devkit-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel > _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
