[ITP] python-getdevinfo

[Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty]

On 13/09/2020 17:08, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 13/09/2020 16:02, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-09-13 01:39, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 13/09/2020 07:13, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>> Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes:
>>>>> Hmm, who decides (and how) what counts as a Linux distro?
>>>> Something that is capable of and has actually done a license review.
>>> Seems fair.
>>>>> Either way, could anyone provide some insight as to whether bundling the
>>>>> Cygwin DLL would allow Cygwin programs to access the virtual /dev and
>>>>> /cygdrive paths? I have this all ready to be released for Windows, so
>>>>> one way or another I'll need to make a bundle anyway for convenience.
>>>> Yes, all the virtual fs are provided through the Cygwin DLL.
>>> Excellent, thank you :)
>>>>> It'd be great if it could make it into the official repos but I first
>>>>> submitted this ITP around a month ago so I don't have high hopes as of
>>>>> this point.
>>>> You still haven't explained what it would be useful for.  This
>>>> bare-metal stuff isn't something I'd usually consider doing from within
>>>> a userland compatibility layer running on Windows.
>>> My apologies - I thought I had but that must be a false memory. This
>>> module is a device information collector, and in Cygwin's case it makes
>>> it easy for users of DDRescue-GUI to find the link between the Windows
>>> drive letters and Cygwin paths. It also provides other information such
>>> as make and model, but this is limited on Cygwin because some of the
>>> more low-level device management utilities don't exist, probably due to
>>> bits of missing API as explained to me by Corrina (at least I think it
>>> was her). It behaves very similarly on macOS and Linux, except it just
>>> needs to inform the user of device details instead of also relating to
>>> drive letters/Windows names.
>>>
>>> This is basically just a dependency for DDRescue-GUI (a GUI I wrote for
>>> GNU ddrescue), and I had interest on getting this running easily on
>>> Windows, so I thought Cygwin would be the way to go for better
>>> compatibility. You can find DDRescue-GUI here:
>>> https://www.hamishmb.com/html/downloads.php?program_name=ddrescue-gui
>>> and the user guide is available from the nav bar if you want more
>>> information about it.
>>>
>>> Does that answer your question - hopefully I didn't miss the point.
>> Package smartmontools has access to some low level disk I/O features when run
>> elevated under an admin account.
> Yes, I think you (or maybe Corinna) told me this before - getdevinfo
> compiles this together with other information to try and get as complete
> a picture as possible. That was a useful tip for sure.
>
> Hamish

NB: If GPLv2 is required instead of GPLv3, I will happily license it as
GPLv2 for Cygwin.

I imagine any properly open source license such as GPLv3 is okay though?

Hamish

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