Hi Pekka, with the respect of statefs plans, I would like to ask if it is planned to phase out /run/state/namespaces/ API in future. I am using it in collectd to log battery, bluetooth, cellular, and internet data in the corresponding plugins.
Best wishes, Rinigus On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:34 PM Pekka Vuorela <pekka.vuor...@jolla.com> wrote: > Hello, > > As you might have noticed, we've been lately migrating away from the > Statefs based ContextKit API implementation. The QML interface already > got rewritten in 3.3.0 as a simpler version that doesn't need a > background daemon [1]. Ideally, and hopefully, applications using that > module should keep working as they used to. > > Alas, it didn't all go without glitches: the Jolla phone, tablet and > SDK are depending on bluez4 packages and a dependency problem related > to that slipped through the cracks [2]. It's fixed now and if we end up > doing a bug fix release for 3.3.0, that should be included there. > > What's been remaining is the c++ library, libcontextkit-statefs-qt5.so, > which is about to be removed from the allowed libraries [3]. Based on > our checks on Store app dependencies, that shouldn't affect too many. > We found only two applications from a single developer and have > contacted him. The usage on those didn't either seem too hard to > migrate to QML or other API. So all in all it hasn't appeared worth it > providing a c++ compatibility library for this little use. > > This as heads up. Please comment if you have any concerns. > > [1] https://git.sailfishos.org/mer-core/nemo-qml-plugin-contextkit > [2] > > https://git.sailfishos.org/mer-core/nemo-qml-plugin-contextkit/merge_requests/4 > [3] https://github.com/sailfishos/sdk-harbour-rpmvalidator/pull/120 > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org
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