From kde-core-devel Sat Sep 18 05:17:04 2004 From: "Dawit A." Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 05:17:04 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: DCOP D-BUS HAL and new cd's Message-Id: <200409180117.04883.adawit () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=109548465218940 On Friday 17 September 2004 11:28, Sashmit Bhaduri wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:05:30 +0200, Kévin Ottens wrote: > > For CD polling and insertion notification, there's some Linux specific > > code in kdenonbeta/kdeautorun too. Moreover HAL is currently really Linux > > specific... I don't see it ported to something else soon (I hope to be > > proved wrong). > > > > Fully relying on something Linux specific is not a good idea, we should > > not forget our FreeBSD users for example (and yes I'm a Linux user, but I > > don't deny the existence of other OS for KDE users). > > HAL looks ( http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/hal/2004-June/000421.html > ) to be fairly > portable. There is a difference between BEING linux-specific and > HAVING linux-specific > parts when compiled in Linux. That's like saying that Linux isn't > portable because it has i386-specific code when run on i386. Has anybody looked at discover (also mentioned in the HAL docs) ? http://componentizedlinux.org/discover/ -- Regards, Dawit A. "Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"