Re: [Pan-users] complaint [gnome keyring]

[David Kelly]

On May 1, 2012, at 6:34 PM, walt wrote:

> On 05/01/2012 03:55 PM, Timothy J. Hamilton wrote:
>> I had a devil of a time upgrading to Pan 0.137. Depending on what I  tried I 
>> would get 381 errors (no password) or 502 (authentication failure). Directly 
>> editing the servers.xml file to insert the password didn't work. Turns out 
>> Pan 
>> needs gnome-keyring installed. It is not listed as a dependency.
> 
> Do you build from sources, or is 0.137 available as a binary package already?
> 
> If you build from sources you can use the --disable-gkr configure flag
> to get rid of that dependency.
> 
> But the only reason I know that is that I run "configure --help" quite often
> because Heinrich has been changing the flags fairly often lately.
> 
> I'm not about to complain, though, because he is rapidly adding nice features
> and is very quick to fix bugs when we report them.  Suggestions/improvements
> for (eternally inadequate) documentation are welcomed by any open-source
> project, naturally!

I think the term "complaint" is the only complaint I have with the above.  :-)

I do agree that if gnome-keyring is in the default configuration that it should 
either be listed as a dependency, or add --disable-gkr to the default.

Can't really fault the developers for not having multiple virgin machines to 
test build upon to catch these things. And can't fault users for bringing it up.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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