On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 17:50 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Havoc Pennington (hp@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > 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. > > ... and finding out that it makes it all slower. :) > Heh, right ;-) Though, one of the reasons to go with something more program/API-like rather than makefile/shell is that it has conceivable advantages other than speed. You could imagine for example that rhgb is only a "view" that doesn't have any interaction with or entanglement with the actual boot process, it just watches events about boot progress and displays them. I don't know how close that is to true already, but it might be a nice situation. For that matter, maybe rhgb could just become part of gdm, if we can get gdm launched early enough instead of at the end. Just speculating. Havoc
