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From: tomas@fabula.de
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Announcement: dmd -0.7
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 10:11:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030403081143.GA14563@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030402194451.GA258@gmx.de>

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:44:52PM +0200, Wolfgang Jaehrling wrote:
> ;; Announcement: dmd -0.7                           -*- scheme -*-
> 

[...]

> (define about-the-software
>   "The dmd program is a service manager, i.e. on the GNU system (which
> is the primary target), it replaces /sbin/init completely, [...]

[...]

Hey! you stole my idea ;-)

Seriously. I've been pondering about such an init replacement with a built
in interpreter (and Guile is an obvious choice) for quite a while now --
ever since the olden days when Lutz Donnerhacke presented his init replacement
at Linux Kongress 1999. I'm thrilled that you are tackling it.

> (define future-directions
>   "Various things will be added in the future, including runlevels, an
> update-rc.d implementation for Debian, support for existing SysV Init
> infrastructure, internationalization, evaluating configuration code in
> a sandbox, a graphical interface frontend and many others.")

Hrm. Have you considered a more dependency-oriented approach, where you
have `services' you want to have running which depend on other services
(a run level could be just a top-level service). This would manage the
starting order of things in an elegant way.

(If that's old things for you please excuse me for stating the obvious,
but then I think this would be a feature to include in the announcement).

Thanks
-- tomas


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-03  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-02 19:44 Announcement: dmd -0.7 Wolfgang Jaehrling
2003-04-03  8:11 ` tomas [this message]
2003-04-03 17:40   ` Wolfgang Jaehrling
2003-04-04  8:04     ` tomas
2003-04-06 17:46 ` Andreas Fuchs
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-19 22:38 Thien-Thi Nguyen

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