Simple ACPI/PMU data extraction routine

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 13:49 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> 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.
> 

And audited, it's secure, maintained etc etc.

> 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.. 
> 

I think people are generally OK with this (apart from some random
loonies on the Internet :-) - note that we might want to drop that
dep for other reasons (starting hald in early userspace) in the
future; if that happens we can might provide a build option to link
statically or do a import of selected features much like pkgconfig
also has a copy of glib. 

It's nothing to worry about now, I think, the important part is
that glib doesn't leak into the public API.

David


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