12 Sep
2011
12 Sep
'11
12:08 a.m.
On 9 Sep 2011, Calvin Morrison said:
Yes I agree.
BTW, discussion was closed on this a few days ago with my statement that
it will NOT be included in Trinity. :-) Quality replacement libraries
need to be written that use the latest power and device interfaces
available.
Tim
Why don't we maintain HAL? As with Qt3, if no
one supports it, it can
just
"disappear into our source. No one need bother with it.
I mean it is an integral part of a desktop and there is no viable
replacement. Therefore I vote that we should adopt it.
It runs as root, is notably nonportable, gets little or no security
review, and its original authors have declared it unmaintainable (and
having looked at it, I must agree).
This seems like a bad thing to pull into Trinity.