Developers' Blogs: voroskoi

Hi,

I was hiding in the dark for a few months, shit happens. Last week I've made some updates in frugalware-current, most notably the curl bump. But it's not what I'd like to talk about.

The point is our init system. Long time ago in a not too far galaxy Alex started to work on upstart, (Btw, have you seen Alex these days?) which is the only event based system I'm aware of. Oh, I'd like to use an event based one as that gives the opportunity to do real fancy shit. Actually a few (much talented) people think so.

The exherbo guys -- at least Bryan -- want to write their own init system so called Genesis. At least the plans are very promising. A few more ideas here.

So at this point there is upstart which works for ubuntu at least (and that means a _lot_ of people) and genesis which haven't started at all yet. Exherbo developers doing hard work, but whey have quite a big todo list. As for now I have no idea which direction would be better for us. Do we want this for 1.0?