Re: New module decisions for 2.16

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:08:40PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> On mar, 2006-08-01 at 14:31 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> >  + Sticky notes
> >    => mostly duplicates functionality of Tomboy
> >    => general agreement to deprecate sticky notes for now and remove
> >       it in a later release
> >    => 'deprecation' means hidden from the user and some kind of
> >       warning for those trying to use it
> 
> Davyd, is there anything we can do to help here, or is this something
> you can handle?

Ok. Here is a suggested migration path.

Since some users will not be able to use Tomboy (on systems that are
not Mono enabled), we should keep stickynotes around. I propose we
do the same as we currently do with mini-commander, that is by
default it will transparently upgrade people's stickynotes to
tomboy.

We then have a --enable-stickynotes flag, that will cause
stickynotes to be compiled and installed (installing with this flag
will also cause people's whose stickynotes to get upgraded to Tomboy
will then cause it to go back again). We then leave it up to package
distributors to decide if they want to break this out as a separate
package or not.

Sound reasonable?

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Davyd Madeley

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