Re: question about HAL support of GVFS

[Jedy Wang <Jedy Wang Sun COM>]

Thanks, David. It does help.

Jedy

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 16:05 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Sorry for the lag.
> 
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 13:56 +0800, Jedy Wang wrote:
> > > I am a developer from Solaris desktop team. Currently we are making
> > plan
> > > to port DeviceKit-disks to Solaris and want to make sure how much
> > time
> > > we have left. So I want to ask how long will the HAL be supported by
> > > GVfs. Do you have any plan when will HAL be dropped?
> 
> There are no immediate plans to remove the HAL backend from the GVfs
> tree - it basically doesn't cost anything to keep it around.
> 
> On the other hand it probably won't see much testing (or bug fixing)
> from the Linux side since current and future Linux distros will likely
> use the gnome-disk-utility backend.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
>