[arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Fri May 4 08:20:05 EDT 2012


On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:43:03 +0200
> Tom Gundersen wrote:
>
>> I couldn't find a reference. Do you have a link? As far as I'm aware,
>> the only real complaint against udisks2 is that they don't supply
>> commandline tools with a stable API. However, the dbus api is stable,
>> so it would be trivial for a third party to provide commandline
>> wrappers aronud the dbus stuff, which could then be considered stable.
>> Is this what he is doing?
>
> Sorry, yeah
>
> "http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/spacefm-udev/"
>
> I sent it straight after realising I'd left it out but it doesn't seem
> to have come through yet, ahh wrong from address sorry.

So he is reimplementing large parts of udisks because he didn't like
that the command line tools does not have a stable api... or did I
miss something? Why not just use the dbus api?

-t


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