Mesh support very likely to miss Sugar 0.84

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Not sure who's able to contribute, but just wanted to wave a red flag
> here to warn that it's looking like any mesh support is very unlikely
> to make the 0.84 Sugar release, unless someone is interested/able to
> work on it:
>
>        http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/230
>
> It officially slipped to the 0.86 milestone today :-( so no kids
> working under a tree scenario (unless the tree happens to come with a
> wireless AP infrastructure).

There are two parts of the work.

* Mesh support needs to be integrated into NetworkManager 0.7. Sjoerd
started to work on it, but his patches are not upstream yet.
* Supports for it needs to be added to the Sugar UI.

More detailed informations here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_manager_0.7

Marco