F14: what to do about pino / twitter
Paul W. Frields
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Fri Oct 1 20:44:49 UTC 2010
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 01:19:52PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
Right, the uncertainty I have is really around the functionality of
the new suggested default client, as opposed to "let's not do
anything." My preference would be a simple removal of pino for no
other reason than least disturbance of the Force.
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