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Though I still fail to see grand benefits, I must admit this is a neat little |
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idea :) (perheaps more of an excersise kind though). |
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A glimpse into possible implementation immediately makes me think about using |
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"appropriate" shell for the task, the one "designed to blend a traditional |
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shell with the power of Python". A short search on google turns up two such |
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projects: |
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http://pysh.sourceforge.net/ and |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyshell/ |
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Though looks like both weren't active for quite some time lately... |
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So, if anybody is motivated anough, I guess that person can try to pick-up |
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wherever those teams left it ;). Then its a matter of selecting appropriate |
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shell as your "basic" one and picking the corresponding baselayout (and |
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creating both + the appropriate profile specification of curse :)). |
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While still not answering why we would want init scripts in python, this can |
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at least create on its way something to stay :). |
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Anyway, just my 0.02$ ;). |
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George |
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On Wednesday 16 April 2003 22:49, Joseph Carter wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:19:31AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > > I for one would enjoy the clean-feel of Python in initscrit |
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> > > composition. That said, I would miss the very "Unix atmospherics" of |
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> > > awk and sed and the run-time interactivity of the shell scripting (I |
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> > > mean, it's potential for shorthand notation). |
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> > As most init scripts are essentially nobrainer oneliners, I believe using |
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> > anything but sh is overkill. In the cases where something special is |
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> > required it is very well possible to use python/any other language either |
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> > embedded or instead of the standard interpreter. (You could even make |
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> > init scripts in c) |
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> I don't know.. Python has this great feature that sh does not: it byte |
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> compiles its scripts and will execute the pre-compiled one if it doesn't |
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> have to do anything else. If everything required to boot a Gentoo system |
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> were done in Python thusly, it'd boot pretty fast. (This I consider a |
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> very worthwhile goal!) |
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