gudev-sharp is born!

In some of my spare time I’m working on modernizing Banshee’s hardware support (all the while lamenting the death of HAL). With HAL we had a nice (although monolithic) toolkit-agnostic hardware layer that was used through dbus. HAL was deprecated in favor of using udev, which is the the Kernel’s hardware event system. I’m sure udev is much nicer from an engineering point of view, but it’s certainly not as nice for application developers as a big old dbus-interface where any information about hardware could be retrieved was. Regardless of how I feel about HAL, HAL is still gone, so Banshee still needs updated to udev. Since udev is so new, no one had made C# bindings for libgudev yet, so I decided to take a stab at using GAPI to generate C# bindings. After hours of talking to myself in irc, trying to trick RAOF into doing my work for me, gudev-sharp is born! It just successfully ran the (incredibly simple) test code I wrote just to make sure it wouldn’t segfault. If you’re interested in modern hardware support via C#, help write unit tests!

I know some people are going to say “bzr? launchpad? And you want this adopted?”. It can move whenever it needs to, LP and bzr are my tools of choice, but if upstream Mono wants to move this into svn, I’d be happy to see it go.