On 06/01/2008, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin(a)ncsu.edu> wrote:
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 06/01/2008, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin(a)ncsu.edu> 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.