On 2/21/07, Ag. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Parallelizing the bootscripts? -
I think that would be interesting and others have shown interest as well. It would seem to be a pretty non-invasive change from the current bootscripts. > Using dash instead of bash? - This was never really my goal. I personally feel like it's more efficient to not use bash, but the bootscripts need to be POSIX compliant. That needs to happen regardless. Or we change them to #!/bin/bash. But I don't want to change our default shell. Changing /bin/sh is an option for the user. > Using an alternative init system? Upstart? That would be interesting, too, but obviously more invasive. > I would like to see some more patches/commits on this,but the question is > where? > In the development branch?I don't think so. DJ has his LSB style parallel bootscripts in the contrib directory in bootscripts. So, people can start playing with those now and contributing patches back. As it stabilizes, I guess we can chart a course of action to make them the default. If it proves to be reliable, of course. The POSIX compliant stuff should go right into trunk. I submitted some patches the other day that got things working on dash for me. I also want to try posh, like Alexander suggested. There were a couple changes that Bruce suggested, too. If someone wants to investigate a big change like Upstart, then I think that needs to go in its own branch, or someone will have to maintain a private repo and submit back big patches. > As it has been proposed in the past,a permanent experiment branch,it would > help us a lot > to speed and stabilize the development process,in nearly every aspect,before > we start > merge some serious changes such those. Maybe. I'd rather have topic branches, though. Cause what would happen if I had an upstart experiment going in this branch and then someone came along and dumped a no-libc experiment in there? :-) If there's significant interest in a big change, I'm all for creating a branch for it. We probably wouldn't have got UTF-8 support in the book without a branch. If the parallel boot scripting stuff gets enough interest, then it will probably have to move to a branch for full testing. Proposals? -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
