Simple ACPI/PMU data extraction routine

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:05:18PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On a similar sort of vein, to do a directory list withing HAL, should we be 
> using:
> 
> 1. glib g_dir_open and g_dir_read_name?
>  I've seen this in the HAL code already, but I thought the concensus was that 
>  we should move away from glib...
>  I myself  like the glib bindings (no need to re-invent the wheel), but the 
>  will the KDE camp complain about the glib dependancy? Does KDE use any 
>  part of HAL?
> 2. non-glib scandir (and all the ".." and sorting uglyness)
>  To keep everything using the standard header <dirent.h>

I'm very very much in favour of using glib funcions where possible. It has got
a lot of very nice utility functions and i don't think it's usefull recreating
several of them in hal.. And above all it's very portable and well-tested.

For what the KDE camp is concerned, they are going to use hal/dbus in KDE 3.4..
Also they seem to be going the gstreamer way, which also drags in glib as a
dependency anyway..

IMHO people should stop thinking about glib as a gnome/gtk thing, but more as a
general utility library.. 

  Sjoerd
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