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Re: [trinity-devel] Tim: TDEHWLIB

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:55:18 -0500
>> Yes, it requires pmount.  No, I am not going to support
>> udisks and friends due to the fact that they require the use of DBUS,
>> and every
>> time I attempt to do anything with DBUS I come away battered and
>> bruised. ;-) Not only that, but there is a history of radical API
>> changes
>> that makes it hard to justify the effort required to get them working.
>
> Then if a distro no longer supports HAL and does not provide pmount as a
> stock package then there will be no auto mounting functionality in TDE?
>
> Darrell

Correct.  You can blame various upstream system developers for that. ;-)

As an aside, if someone else would like to add a plugin to tie into DBUS
for automount and such, I would be willing to work with them on the TDE
API side to make sure that the task can be accomplished.  I just refuse to
rely solely on projects which both use DBUS and are constantly being
replaced with a newer completely incompatible version.

Tim