> Can I ask how this differs from the smolt project? The big difference is that smolt is focused on collecting device data from machines, it uses a combination of bios data for machine identification and hal information for devices.
Compare this to dohickey which is focused on collecting hardware data from people based on the detected hardware on machine, parsing all available data from bios/hal/udev/i2c to quantify what hardware is present, detecting what if any drivers are being used and providing the user with all the available information about their hardware in the client. I wouldn't see a problem with allowing smolt access to the data and having dohickey access the smolt data. But their scope and aims are quite different. > Is there a benefit of having all of these clients available, > or should we try and coverge on one standard one? There should be a standard, but if converging I would like that standard to be a little more interactive and interesting than some of the hardware clients and hardware databases have allowed for themselves. > Do the upstreams have compatible aims and so be convinced > to share their efforts? I think they've already talked about it, I know I've talked to many people already in other client and server projects. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
