Dear Rich, On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Rich Pixley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone considered the possibility of introducing upstart to oe-core, > perhaps as an alternative? > > How would people feel about patches to do that? > > I ask because "classic", (read, "former" and "proprietary"), WebOS used > upstart and we're considering whether to attempt to continue to do so as we > move to oe-core, or whether to attempt to convert all of our components > over. Either way, we have to convert a bunch of service scripts. And if > we're going to convert a bunch of service scripts for oe-core components, > (as distinct from porting service scripts for Palm components), then it > would be much easier of those patches were to find their way into oe-core > rather than needing to be maintained separately. > The support for Upstart would be welcome for sure however we need to avoid the same mistakes we did in Systemd support; I'd say it ought to start as a separate layer in meta-oe for the beggining and after it has been properly polished we can evaluate the possibility to merge it onto oe-core. Current systemd classes can give you a good work base. Regards, -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br
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