On 08/26/2012 04:55 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
Correct. You can blame various upstream system developers for that. ;-)
As an aside, if someone else would like to add a plugin to tie into DBUS for automount and such, I would be willing to work with them on the TDE API side to make sure that the task can be accomplished. I just refuse to rely solely on projects which both use DBUS and are constantly being replaced with a newer completely incompatible version.
Tim
What would it take to identify those upstream packages (a small reasonable list) that are critical to TDE function (the way you want it to function) and just bring that code over to prevent all of this incompatibility frustration. I know I feel it -- when it feels like the rug has been pulled out from underneath you -- by some whacky upstream change.
Well, that is why I designed the TDE HW library to function on top of procfs. Based on historical record, the chances of procfs disappearing from the kernel are much, much smaller than the chances of a u* package radically changing or becoming deprecated.
Following upstream is surely easier, but when you cannot count on them being there, that seems like a shaky foundation to build a house on...
Precisely.
HAL, pmount, udisk, udisk2 is a good example of a constantly moving target where key functionality of TDE is at risk.
Yes, I agreem. Note however that the pmount dependency is very small; TDE only calls it as an external program, and the only thing that would break if pmount were to disappear would be mounting of disk/media devices.
As you look at the code I have written over the past year, you can see I have been attempting to abstract all of these functions into a simple, easy-to-use, standardized TDE API that new (or old) applications can use to easily gain access to information that is normally very difficult to retrieve. Another main function of this structure is to effectively separate the (complex and prone to upstream breakage) backend code from the user application code, obviating the need for full rewrites of TDE applications code when upstream backends change.
Tim