porting guide

[Bill Nottingham]

David Zeuthen (david at fubar.dk) said: 
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 18:21 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > do you have a porting guide from hal to devicekit-disks somewhere ?
> > Or at least some notes to point people at ?
> 
> Nope. Not apart from the obvious
> 
>  storage stuff -> DeviceKit-disks
>  power mgmt -> DeviceKit-power
>  everything else -> DeviceKit
> 
> It might be useful to poke Richard and Arnaud to send their notes on
> DK-power to the list to kick off that round of discussions. Another big
> item on the TODO list is to figure out how to associate data with
> devices (e.g. hal fdi files, udev rules).
> 
> Might also be useful to enumerate the projects right now using HAL;
> would be good to keep that in a Wiki similar to 
> 
>  http://live.gnome.org/GioPort
> 
> I'm away until Tuesday but will look at the mailing list when I'm back.

I'm somewhat worried since we're discussing the porting of large
numbers of upstream apps - for those that simply use HAL for enumeration,
will libhal still be around and work for them?

Bill