The secret of monkey island for iphone software#

‘feature creep’ (and using XML for the config files didn’t help any). HAL had problems, but they weren’t *really* noticed until people started to use it for lots of things it wasn’t originally designed to handle, aka. That’s called learning from your mistakes, and trying to do things ‘better’. We no sooner get one subsystem that works reasonably well when the wheel is re-invented yet again. Hopefully there will be an all round purge of HAL and it is relegated to the dustbin of really bad ideas. It is also good for other GNOME platforms as well – the duplication of HAL on OpenSolaris was pointless given that there was already technology in place that could handle everything that HAL did. I am happy that HAL has finally been removed and there is a native solution that works out of the box for once. Buggy hardware handling, issues with ripping CD’ and so on. Quite honestly I remember when HAL was first introduced and it was awful experience I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. Now that it has been sorted out I doubt we’ll see changes anytime soon. The only reaosn why it happened was because libudev was originally GPL which caused a major licensing issue and HAL was introduced due to limitations that have now since have been overcome.

The secret of monkey island for iphone software#

Is it any wonder that most commercial software developers don’t target it? It seems we no sooner get one subsystem that works reasonably well when the wheel is re-invented yet again.

While I’m of the mind that hal needed to go as it just wasn’t efficient, I can’t help but feel that subsystems are deprecated and replaced far too often when it comes to the Linux desktop.