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

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi Simon,
Your project has been approved in savannah.nongnu.org. I have not asked the
GNU project to evaluate it, because you do not have any source code in
Savannah yet. When you do (or any time you find it appropriate), you can get
in touch directly with address@hidden to ask them to consider your
project for inclussion in GNU. If it becomes part of GNU, we can easily move
it from savannah.nongnu.org into savannah.gnu.org

Cheers,
Jaime

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:18:29PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> 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)
>