Re: [PATCH] [ELPA] Implement connman in enwc

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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> Could you please tell us in a few lines what ENWC does?

Hi,

ENWC is an emacs package who's purpose is to display and manage internet
connections through diffent backends. That means listing available wi-fi
networks and connecting to them from emacs. On gnu/linux backends this
is usually NetworkManager, wicd or connman (maybe other packages
exist). AFAIK these packages interface with the linux kernel to manage
these connections, and they all provide a D-BUS interface for
applications that want to manage wifi, this is ENWC's use case.

From what I can see, ENWC has been created in 2013, then rebooted in
2017 by Ian Dunn but abandoned again since, though in a working state
for NetworkManager, the ConnMan back-end has not been updated.

        https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg00368.html
        https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-02/msg00583.html

As of right now ENWC is hosted on savannah and is inactive since the
reboot in 2017.

       https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/enwc

And to answer your 2012 question, it uses mostly asynchronous requests,
except for when connecting, but that should be easily fixable.

       https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg00391.html

> Also, what connman support does, concretely?

ConnMan support makes the package compatible with another back-end, my
patch only finishes the work that was started a few years ago.