| 1 |
On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 11:08, Wouter van Kleunen wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> Yes. I have thought of adding a script-service. But i removed it, because |
| 4 |
> i do not like scripts. I agree that they are convenient for executing a |
| 5 |
> collection of commands, but bash is a very weak programming language. |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> I will think about adding scripts. Maybe just to lower the difference |
| 8 |
> between my init and sysvinit. But rather not bash, bash is ugly :-( |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> it would be nice if people wrote more scripts using functional languages. |
| 11 |
> (haskell, miranda, etc...) |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
Point is, where say 80% people can code in sh/bash, much less can do |
| 15 |
that in python, haskell, whatever. Thus dropping the 'user' interface |
| 16 |
to the init system being in bash/sh, will make it unusable for many |
| 17 |
users. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
Having the startup scripts/modules binary though, means you cannot |
| 20 |
do quick changes, etc as well. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
And like many others did say, python/whatever have too large |
| 23 |
dependencies. For example, having python initscripts will make |
| 24 |
an initrd/diet_system a PITA to get running. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
Having SVC support build into init, now that is a reason why I would |
| 27 |
change init. |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
Another question that bothers me ... if everybody is so against bash |
| 30 |
being slow, why don't they spent time to get bash's IO more optimised? |
| 31 |
For example, getting bash to read the whole script, and then executing |
| 32 |
it, and not reading line by line should already add much improvement. |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
Anyhow, just a few quick thoughts, |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
-- |
| 38 |
|
| 39 |
Martin Schlemmer |
| 40 |
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
| 41 |
Cape Town, South Africa |
Archives