F14: what to do about pino / twitter

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Oct 1 20:19:52 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 16:07 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> > Yeah, if we want to ship one, gwibber is pretty much the only option,
> > since it's most likely too late to fix pino before F14 is released. The
> > big cons about gwibber, in my opinion is the fairly poor performance
> > I've experienced with it (tho I last used it about 2 months ago) and the
> > number of dependencies it would pull into the livecd.
> 
> Doesn't post-Beta seem too late to do this?  Better to have people
> simply use their browser I'd think.

well, we have to make *some* kind of post-beta change here, since as I
said the current situation blocks the release. I don't think subbing in
gwibber for pino is a particularly scary change, all we'd have to check
is if it goes over the size limit, and if it works, which is about half
an hour of effort.
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