hal 0.5.9.1

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 20:24 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:16 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >       introduce new <addset> operator
> 
> What advantages does this have over merge?

It's shorthand for

 contains_not FOO
   append FOO
 /contains_not

e.g. it treats a strlist as a mathematical set.

> If we use this in hal-info, what do older versions (0.5.9) do? hal-info
> has to be forwards and backwards compatible...

Yeah, that should be a goal but for this tiny thing we're making an
exception. I noted that here some time ago

 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-May/008249.html

Thanks,
David