On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:58 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:55 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > With something like D-BUS involved it's far easier to e.g. have GUI for > > progress meters, starting/stopping services, display meaningful error > > messages, and so forth. You also avoid some of the yucky issues such as > > stuck PID files. Basically it's a lot more deterministic and extensible. > > Wasn't Seth (Nickell?) working on a Python/D-BUS init system prototype a > while back? What happened to that? It was just a prototype, I guess not finished. The hard part after all is switching over the system and fixing all the bugs. Havoc
