DeviceKit-disks renamed to udisks (original) (raw)

Ali Abdallah aliov at xfce.org
Sat Dec 5 21:08:23 PST 2009

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.

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