On Friday 09 September 2011 21:27:18 Calvin Morrison wrote:

> Call this ridiculous,  call it what you will.
> 
> Why don't we maintain HAL? As with Qt3, if no one supports it, it can just
> "disappear into our source. No one need bother with it.
> 
> I mean it is an integral part of a desktop and there is no viable
> replacement. Therefore I vote that we should adopt it.
> 
> Thoughts?

Call it good or bad but hal will never return to the distributions.