[pkg-wpa-devel] What's wrong with the new configuration scheme, IMO

[Felix Homann]

On Friday 21 April 2006 10:51, Alexej Davidov wrote:
> I agree with most of Felix' points.

Thanks.

> I also agree with Kel, that many of 
> the mentioned issues won't be issues any more, as soon as there is some
> "wifiroamd".

Only time can tell. It really depends on what wifiroamd [not the one that 
actually does exist] will actually be capable of when it comes to existence. 
By now it is merely a name and a rough estimation of what it should do. At 
the time of this writing, discussing the benefits of wifiroamd is not much 
different from claiming what great gaming experience Duke Nukem Forever 
offers  ;-)

(Yes, I know that wifiroamd will probably be around before Duke Forever.)

> The problem, I think, was bad timing.

No. It's about attitude. The packagers have *intentionally* broken every 
single setup that was using either the init script 
or /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. That they did not even provide proper 
documentation (at first) on how to fix up the mess only made it worse. 

There's nothing wrong in developing a new configuration scheme with whatever 
in mind. Breaking working setups without need _is_ wrong. (Sorry, I'll only 
stop stressing this when it is not an issue anymore...)
  
> Changing the  
> configuration scheme with wifiroamd in mind 

From what I have read in the list archive the idea of wifiroamd was only born 
afterwards. See here:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2006-April/000091.html

Regards,

Felix