Re: Module proposal: dconf [migration from gconf]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 14:22 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > How can you be sure of that? Any other plan involves first writing and
> > debugging a new set of software to support the gconf api on something
> > else, then maintaining it for as long as we would have to maintain
> > gconf, and this being new software it is likely going to be more work to
> > maintain.
> 
> I think Josselin is talking with his distro maintainer hat on (not as a
> software maintainer): having to keep GTK+1.2 libs around for so long was
> a pain.

I'm not sure I see the difference. He will have to maintain gconf in the
distro, or he will have to maintain the newly written, not yet debugged,
gconf-over-dconf replacement in the distroy for just as long time.