[Mageia-dev] Drakxnet, drakroam and Draknetcenter : let's fix it or throw it.

Mon Aug 1 15:59:24 CEST 2011

On 1 August 2011 15:29, Thomas Lottmann <skipercooker at gmail.com> wrote:
+> The other main issue I see si that Drakxnet is coded in Perl and uses a lot
+> of perl scripts, like the drakxtools. This makes it hard to maintain, and to
+> improve.
+
+That's just your own POV.
+Not the POV of maintainers.
+
+> I know it works fine for several people. Personally, I am often having
+> issues because it's disconnects on it's own,
+
+This has nothing to do with drakconnect that don't handle that.
+If the network disconnected, that's the issue between the routers,
+the network, the kernel, ....
+
+> and no longer sees any networks when it should.
+
+which points to either network issue or kernel driver issue, not drakconnect.
+
+> Then it has difficulty  reconnecting.
+
+Same, reconnecting is the job of dhcp-client, ifplugd and the like.
+Not drakconnect's job.
+
+> Windows, Fedora and Ubuntu's wireless tools work absolutely smoothly at my
+> school. And now, other people testing Mageia as school are having the same
+> issues I have. This is frustrating and I can assure you these home-made
+> network tools have to be improved and fixed.
+
+Well, Fedora tool (really NM) has its own bugs.
+And I'm pretty sure people who've used MS, Apple or whatever OS/tool
+they're used to, have also encountered issues
+
+> If you want to, I can attempt to make a list of the isses and incoherencies
+> I find, although they are not hard to see.
+
+Indeed, please just fill in _several_ bugs (one report per issue)
+against drakx-net
+
+> But as I mentionned earlier, this
+> is a tool that is hard to maintain, and I cannot learn perl right now.
+
+That's just _your_ personnal though, not his maintainer's.
+aka "this is a tool that is hard to maintain" really means "you would not be
+able to maintain it"
+
+> If NetworkManager is easier to maintain and works fine, then I think it can
+> be a better solution. Just offering or trying to find solutions, because
+> this tool seriously does not work properly here.
+
+it has its own flaws too...
+