Howdy all, Upstream agrees that a nice, modular plugin system would be good to allow for easier distribution. However, at this stage I have little time to work on it. If I get some time to try and work on this, I will let you all know. It probably wouldn't be too much effort, since all the sensors stuff is already separated in to individual source files, so they would probably want to utilise the GModule interface (glib's dlopen() wrapper interface)...
Cheers Alex On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 16:08 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 02:25:24PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > Ugh, ctrl+enter is a STUPID choice for a shortcut to send an email > > you're composing... > > indeed, change your MUA to something saner <g> > > > > > > 1) I understand you motivation not to include nvidia support per default > > > to avoid moving the package to contrib. But as there are so many users > > > with nvidia GPUs out there it would perhaps be a nice solution, to > > > provide a 2nd package e.g. sensors-applet-with-nv or something better ;) > > > in contrib. > > > That way each user could choose the one he likes. > > > > I've thought about it, but I believe Debian's policy would require that > > it be an entirely separate source package... which is double the > > maintenence burden, and I don't know if the ftpmasters would even accept > > two almost-identical source packages. > > > > Given that NVIDIA's own code can't even read the sensors on my graphics > > card, and that NVIDIA hardware is non-free crap in the first place, my > > motivation to work on this issue myself is pretty much zero. However if > > you (or anyone else) would like to maintain a branch of the package I > > will help you. :) > > [upstream CCed] > > I do not know s-a architecture but here's a thought: > > give a simple interface for external .so to dlopen() at runtime, then the > nvidia > component can be made an .so and put in contrib in a small source package. > > OT: Sam: there's no upstream author contact in copyright, do you mind adding? > > filippo > -- > Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net > PGP key: 0x6B79D401 > random quote follows: > > What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. > -- Lev Tolstoj
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