Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-17 Thread Terry Brown
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 01:41:00 -0300 "Xavier G. Domingo" wrote: > I think Terry's idea is great. I don't know how do Runlevels exactly > work in *nix OSs nor what is your idea on how to implement them in > Leo, but it occurs to me that it could even be useful to have a >

Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Xavier G. Domingo wrote: ​>​ it occurs to me that it could even be useful to have a *g.initState* ivar ​. This would be a good idea if it phases can be defined simply. We shall see... Edward -- You received this message because you are

Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-16 Thread Xavier G. Domingo
I'm wondering if it would be a useful thought experiment to list a series of "run levels" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel) or levels of initialization for Leo - just a textual list where we do our best to be aware of dependencies for each level. It will be interesting to look at

Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-16 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Terry Brown wrote: :-) I think there's an intuitive sense that there might be some > potential for simplification, which would be very valuable. ​I agree, but startup code is the ruin of all intuition... ​ > it doesn't seem like > ​ ​

Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-16 Thread Terry Brown
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:58:06 -0700 (PDT) "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 2:15:06 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Terry Brown > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm wondering if it would be a useful

Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-16 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 2:15:06 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > >> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Terry Brown >> wrote: >> >>> I'm wondering if it would be a useful thought experiment to list a >>> series of "run levels" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel) or

Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-09 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 2:57:26 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Terry Brown wrote: > >> I'm wondering if it would be a useful thought experiment to list a >> series of "run levels" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel) or >>

Re: Leo's run levels

2017-07-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Terry Brown wrote: > I'm wondering if it would be a useful thought experiment to list a > series of "run levels" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel) or > levels of initialization for Leo - just a textual list where we do our > best to