Re: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

[Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus freebsd org>]

Luis Medinas wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 12:47 +0100, Denis Washington wrote:
>> Richard Hughes wrote:
>>> DeviceKit-power and DeviceKit-disks just depend on the trivial DeviceKit
>>> daemon which is a thin dbus wrapper around udev.
>>>   
>> As udev is Linux-specific AFAIK, is there support for any other Unix 
>> platform in DeviceKit? If we lost FreeBSD support for instance, that 
>> would be a regression (hal works there).
> 
> Not to mention just like Consolekit it requires some tweaking to work on
> Linux distros. From what i remember lot's of distros like Debian and
> Gentoo required some changes on HAL to get it working. Someone from
> Gentoo please correct me but Consolekit isn't still working on Gentoo.
> So i would appreciate that these new projects get more feedback from
> distributors and other OS like FreeBSD and Solaris.

I haven't had time to look at DK yet.  We have a lot invested in HAL as
KDE is now making extensive use of it.  I still have some HAL items on
my TODO list, and right now, I'm the only one working on HAL on FreeBSD.

Getting DK working on FreeBSD would take some time, and based on
Richard's previous email, it doesn't sound like I'd be able to leverage
the existing C code already in HAL.  Additionally, I'm not comfortable
writing Python, so if that is a requirement, I'll need to come up to
speed on that first.

Therefore, at this point, I'd say that if 2.26 requires DK, it would
seriously slow the FreeBSD adoption of 2.26 (maybe up to an additional
six months).

Joe

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