On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: > >> +20 million. >> >> I couldn't agree more. They need to be scripts, considering how seldom >> they actually run it makes even less sense to chase down optimization in >> them by making them compiled. > > Absolutely. I have no idea why you shouldn't use a small and light > interpreted language rather than C. You would have a standard library of > useful init related functions, so you wouldn't have to fork awk, etc. The > actual init scripts would be very small then. C is also missing useful > datatypes such as maps, which would require libraries to load. > > Something like Lua would be very good. The overheads over C would be > minimal, and it would have the advantage of being editable. Well spawing your logic further means we should avoid compiled programs at all, what if I want configure $app by editing its source code? Oh wait it is written in C ... If it goes down to "want to edit scripts for configuration reasons" (which isn't sane anyway) compared to a faster an cleaner boot process I'd opt for the later. Seriously source code is NOT and never was intended to be a configuration system period. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
