Re: DeviceKit-Power for 2.26?

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:24 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> > Andreas Proschofsky wrote:
> >
> >> Just wanted to point out that Richard Hughes proposed DeviceKit-power as
> >> an external dependency for GNOME 2.26 [1] which obviously was missed for
> >> the recent module inclusion discussion.
> >
> > Thanks for pointing this out.
> >
> > For the record (as I didn't find them immediately, there are tarballs
> > at <http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/>).
> >
> > I am fine with it, but as DeviceKit requires libudev >= 130 (released
> > on 07-Oct-2008), I am in favour of keeping it optional (just like it
> > is at the moment) so GNOME can be built and used on older systems (as
> > udev is not something that can be installed in a jhbuild prefix).
> 
> As Richard explained earlier, g-p-m 2.25 is pretty much a rewrite on
> top of DK-power; so this is not an ifdef deal. Its a distributor
> choice to either ship the (still maintained) g-p-m 2.24.x, or the
> DeviceKit-based 2.26.x.

Correct. There's a few remnants of HAL left in the DeviceKit version,
for instance for setting the brightness for legacy panels, but otherwise
you're correct. Note: The new version is a fraction of the old version
code size as not it's all partitioned correctly with DeviceKit-power.
Same feature set.

Richard.