

Re: Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

Christopher Aillon wrote:
On 05/13/2009 02:29 PM, nodata wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 13.05.2009, 13:57 -0700 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi:
nirik (Kevin Fenzi) has just packaged up the cnetwork-manager program.
"c" stands for command line in this case.


Thanks a lot. I didn't know about this, I thought we were meant to use

But I think this demonstrates a point I made, because the command line
tool came last :(

Though, if someone had come by and made a new CLI tool for managing networks a few years ago, would people really decide to switch their CLI tool because of it? Would it have gotten the development and user
community behind it to support its development?
Well, probably not, because ...

a) Those people who wanted something like "NM", are not the same people who want CLI-tools.

b) For those people wanting CLI-tools, NM is just a series of regressions and problems, something which doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. They _turned away_ from using and supporting NM, may-be even from using Fedora, in particular since NM tries to replace networking scripts.

c) "network scripts" had not been that bad as some people might want them to appear. They suffered from bugs and poor maintenance, but that's it. As long as NM had been optional, the CLI-folks didn't see a need to get involved.

In short:
IMO, NM and network-scripts are/were addressing different user audiences and use-cases. Neither one actually meets both audiences' demands.

Before NM, the "dial-on demand/single-user/desktop" users were dissatisfied, now the "static connection/multi-users/server" users are dissatisfied.

Unfortunately, the latter are likely a much smaller group than the former (Accused to be "corner-cases"), which has allowed NM to win, and now is the cause to ruck-sack it to meet the CLI-user's demands.

My guess is probably not, especially given there were several CLI tools that attempted to do the automation back when NM first came out. People are picky about their command line tools. What happened happened, and probably couldn't have happened any other way.

It could have ... it would have been a matter of will.

Instead, RH actively supported the NetworkManager devs, despite the criticism NM had received and still receives (Other distros went different ways).

IMO, we are now actually discussing to work around to the flaws NM suffers from and to tweak it into something "usable".

