Subject: libhal support for GNOME 2.22 [PSARC/2008/199 FastTrack timeout 03/24/2008]
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1. Introduction
    1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
	 libhal support for GNOME 2.22
    1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
	 Author:  Artem Kachitchkine
    1.3  Date of This Document:
	17 March, 2008
4. Technical Description
4.1. Proposal

GNOME 2.22 is coming to Nevada. A new component, GVFS, relies on
some trivial libhal functions that debuted in HAL 0.5.10, functions
to retrieve values from property sets. ONNV includes HAL 0.5.8.
Although a full-blown upgrade to the latest HAL is in the works,
it will take some time. We propose to backport the missing libhal
functions as a temporary relief, not to hold up desktop development.

4.2. Interfaces

Libhal interfaces introduced in PSARC 2005/399 were classified Volatile
and contracted to the Desktop organization. Given that this case is a
very minor extension of libhal, we propose to use the same stability
level. Looking forward, the future HAL upgrade case should consider
better classification options.

Interface             | Stability | Description
----------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------
libhal_ps_get_type    | Volatile  | Get type of property
libhal_ps_get_string  | Volatile  | Get value of a string property
libhal_ps_get_int32   | Volatile  | Get value of an int32 property
libhal_ps_get_uint64  | Volatile  | Get value of an uint64 property
libhal_ps_get_double  | Volatile  | Get value of a double property
libhal_ps_get_bool    | Volatile  | Get value of a boolean property
libhal_ps_get_strlist | Volatile  | Get value of a string list property
----------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------


6. Resources and Schedule
    6.4. Steering Committee requested information
   	6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
		ON
    6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
    6.6. ARC Exposure: open