DeviceKit

[James Butler]

2009/6/10 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 01:52 +0200, Koop Mast wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 10:33 +1200, James Butler wrote:
>> > Hi -gnome,
>> >
>> > A couple of weeks ago I was looking for info on DeviceKit on FreeBSD,
>> > when I found the "State of the FreeBSD GNOME Project" thread from
>> > earlier in the year, which mentions DeviceKit as a priority for
>> > porting. Has anyone stepped up to do this so far?
>> >
>> > -James Butler
>>
>> I got something in the works. At the moment I'm working on what exactly
>> happens on linux.
>
> I had an idea to port DK to FreeBSD as a wrapper around HAL.  The reason
> for this is that FreeBSD doesn't have udev (or sysfs), and a lot of
> effort went in to abstracted the various hardware properties in hal, so
> those methods should probably be leveraged.  Libhal also provides a good
> API for performing many of the operations required by DK.

With DeviceKit's stated intention of replacing HAL, that would make
HAL a FreeBSD-only backend for DeviceKit. So much for abstraction :-)

-James

>
> However, I haven't started any work on this.  Yes, getting DK on FreeBSD
> is a priority, especially for GNOME 3.0.
>
> Joe
>
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