Updates in svn

Loïc Minier lool+alioth at via.ecp.fr
Fri Apr 14 21:11:10 UTC 2006


        Hi,

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Pretty cool huh? :-)

 Indeed, I was lurking at the features for a while, and I already have a
 couple of projects in mind to take advantage of the new features with
 embedded hardware.  O:-)

> That was provided for convenience of the end user: to compile their own 
> hostapd/wpa_supplicant binaries against exactly that madwifi source version.
> If you do not like it, say so, and it will disappear.

 That might an useful thing for some persons, but I'm not sure it
 belongs as a Debian package in the archive.  I wouldn't object to it,
 but -dev package are primarily present to satisfy build-dependencies.
 IMO, people wanting to build everything themselves can also rebuild
 madwifi from source to get the headers, but YMMV.


> Until the madwifi code is considered complete by ourselves and the 
> madwifi developers, I'd suggest that it should only be available in the 
> experimental repo, and the madwifi-ng name should remain intact until 
> then so that the user must make the conscious decision to install and 
> use them.

 Ok, the approach is fine.

[...]
> I don't really want to introduce the new code until after etch, and I 
> can't see the outstanding issues in madwifi-ng being fixed completely by 
> then anyway.
> Is this reasonable enough?

 Fine.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
"You can gtk_main_run, but you can't gtk_widget_hide." --danw, 19-jul-04



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