[SailfishDevel] Removing libcontextkit-statefs-qt5.so from allowed libraries

[rinigus]

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.vuorela at 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
>
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