On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 21:08, David Nielsen wrote: > > Yeah, what ever happened to Seth's python based init thingy, it sounded > like such a cool idea when it was presented, but then there was no > follow up. Seth seems to have a lot of good ideas concerning usability, > and making UNIX not suck, we should all pay more attention to him. It's probably a lot of work (though not enormous, I'm sure one person working on it for a couple months could do it). gdm fix can probably be done without it. Pretty sure the main point there wasn't python but creating a robust and deterministic extensible framework... defining how things work a bit more than just "run these shell scripts" By avoiding shell and tracking the service lifecycles with D-BUS, you can do a lot of things that are hard to do in shell, the shell stuff is fragile, tends to have race conditions and fail to handle errors in any sane way. Displaying progress, named function-based runlevels such as "GUI" or "single user", etc. are other useful goals. http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/2003/Sep/27 is the url I guess. Anyway, a fun project for someone. Havoc
