On 06/01/2008, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > On 06/01/2008, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> There is work being done in this area for Fedora as well. I've been > >> working on a parallel booting system for us that also will provide dbus > >> notifications for the starting of various services. (Hopefully I'll be > >> leading a hackfest at FUDCon in a few days to get a few more eyes and > >> hands on the code). > >> > >> > > > > Other than compatability with sysvinit scripts, why was upstart dismissed? > > > > > Many options were looked at during the last iteration of this > discussion, and by my understanding prcsys was the one that won out. See > here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit/RC?highlight=%28fcnewinit%29 That's a shame, because the roadmap for upstart includes better sysvinit compatibility, dbus support for IPC, service mangement et. See: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/upstart-devel/2007-October/000468.html It seems to me that many of the reasons for dismissing upstart in favour of a write-from-scratch have since disappeared. J. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
