Re: Dropping HAL support from gvfs

[藍挺瑋 <lantw44 gmail com>]

於 週五，2016-09-09 於 19:19 +0200，Michael Biebl 提到：
> Thanks for your feedback
>
> 2016-09-09 7:48 GMT+02:00 藍挺瑋 <lantw44 gmail com>:
> > I am a not gvfs package maintainer of any distribution, but I think
> > HAL code is
> > still being run by most GNOME/Mate/Xfce/... users on FreeBSD
> > because HAL option
> > is enabled by default in FreeBSD ports. I cannot say it is working
> > without
> > problems, but there is still some user-visible features depending
> > on HAL.
>
> [..]
>
> > Instead of fixing HAL, I think the correct way to fix these
> > problems is to
> > implement a FreeBSD devd backend in gvfs, but I don't know whether
> > there are
> > people that are going to do it. If we remove HAL support before a
> > better backend
> > is available, FreeBSD users may think it is a feature removal.
>
> This reminds a bit of the Xorg situation a few years ago. The hotplug
> support was originally based on HAL, but then replaced by a udev
> backend and later got a devd backend for kfreebsd as well.

I think most FreeBSD users and package maintainers will be happy to see
HAL removal as long as devd support is available. I know some
maintainers also want to get rid of HAL from their packages.

> Since you are using FreeBSD, could you notify the right FreeBSD
> people
> and make them aware of the situation.

Yes, I can forward your email to freebsd-gnome mailing list and notify
some maintainers about this situation.

> HAL support won't be removed in the upcoming GNOME 3.22 release, i.e.
> gvfs 1.30
> But maybe we could make ./configure output a big warning for 1.30
> when
> --enable-hal is used, saying that HAL support is deprecated and
> scheduled to be removed in 1.32.

I think I can tell the maintainer to copy the warning message to pkg-
message file, so all FreeBSD users will see the message after
installation.

> This would give the FreeBSD developers another 6 months to get this
> into 3.24 or they can decide to stick with gvfs 1.30 until a devd
> port
> is available.
>
> Regards,
> Michael