hal: Branch 'master'

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Mon Aug 27 09:44:47 PDT 2007


On Montag, 27. August 2007, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Mean this HAL don't work with older PolicyKit than PK HEAD? (not good!)
>
> The renaming of the actions (s/hal-power-set-powersave/
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.set-powersave/) force also all other
> tools to change their code to get the information (as e.g. KPowersave,
> g-p-m or powersaved and other which lookup the policy before call
> something), this is IMO not the best idea within the RC for 0.5.10 and
> would blow up the complexity of the tools if they have to support more HAL
> versions than >= 0.5.10., or not?

Btw. IMO we have to handle the names of the policies in HAL as all other stuff 
like the HAL properties. Don't simply change them: deprecate the old names 
and change/remove them after a defined time to give all other projects enough 
time to switch/update their packages.

Danny


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