[Savannah-hackers] submission of Power Management utilities - savannah.gnu.org

[Simon . Richter]

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Simon Richter <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: GPL V2 or later, with the exception that non-free software is 
allowed to link
as long as they use only certain header files marked as public. The goal is to
allow non-free software to use ACPI under Linux, but without allowing them to
provide plugins for proprietary standards.

This is currently being sorted out by the address@hidden guys.

Package: Power Management utilities
System name: power-utils
Type: GNU

Description:
The goal of the project is to provide a standardized interface to
power management features on GNU systems (GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, ...).
The main part is a shared library, which contains some framework to
load plugins, which do the actual work (as PM differs with platform,
PM standard used, kernel and kernel version). Additionally, a set of
utilities shall be provided for command-line access to PM functions.
The ultimate goal (as soon as these parts are finished) is to add a
power management policy manager daemon that can be instructed e.g. to
automatically suspend the system after five minutes of inactivity.

This is eventually scheduled to become the standard interface to ACPI
on Linux systems, but we try to keep it generic in order to be able to
support the Hurd later.

Current status is that battery support is being implemented (as this
is what users are asking for), but nothing more exists yet. There is no
actual working code, just a few starting points that show the overall
direction the library code is going, at
http://people.debian.org/~sjr/libpower-0.1.0.tar.gz .


Other Software Required:
 - gcc (for compilation)
 - g++ (C++ test cases, not required for build as the C++ bindings are .h files
   only)
 - gcj (Java bindings planned)
 - autoconf/automake/libtool (the usual)
 - texinfo (documentation)


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