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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    Re: [smartmontools-support] [smartmontools-devel] Several questions
From:       Bruce Allen <ballen () gravity ! phys ! uwm ! edu>
Date:       2008-09-08 14:09:20
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0809080908110.2782 () gc ! phys ! uwm ! edu
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Hi Alexander,

OK, let's wait for the initial version then come back to these questions!

Cheers,
 	Bruce

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Alexander Shaduri wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:11:07 -0500 (CDT)
> Bruce Allen <ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thank you.  I would be interested in incoporating your code into
>> smartmontools, provided that it could at least support Linux, Windows, Mac
>> OS X, FreeBSD, and the other major Unix-like platforms.  Would you be
>> interested in this?
>
> Well, it's too early to say - I imagined them being more "side by side",
> rather than "as one". One reason for keeping them separate is that right
> now, the GUI can reasonably work with any smartctl version since 5.0
> (well, not sure about all of them, but if it doesn't, it's fixable). Merging
> them would force the coordination of release cycles, inability to use
> the GUI with an older, "system-installed" smartctl, etc...
> Of course, anything can change, and I'm open to that.
>
> For platform support - yes, I would definitely welcome the other
> developers' support. Just let me release the initial version first :)
>
>> The other smartmontools developers would have to take
>> a look also -- we could not do this without their support.  But I am
>> pretty sure that we could put together drive detection code -- that is
>> more or less part of the (imaginary) smartmontools 'roadmap' for the
>> future.
>
> Yes, I'm sure such code can be put together, but I think it would
> have to be both in smartmontools and the GUI, for the GUI to support
> the older smartmontools versions.
>
>
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