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From: Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@devrieze.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:19:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304161019.31869.gentoo-user@devrieze.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E9D168C.10392.73F5440@localhost>

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On Wednesday 16 April 2003 07:38, merv wrote:
> I for one would enjoy the clean-feel of Python in initscrit composition.
> That said, I would miss the very "Unix atmospherics" of awk and sed
> and the run-time interactivity of the shell scripting (I mean, it's
> potential for shorthand notation).
>

As most init scripts are essentially nobrainer oneliners, I believe using 
anything but sh is overkill. In the cases where something special is required 
it is very well possible to use python/any other language either embedded or 
instead of the standard interpreter. (You could even make init scripts in c)

Paul

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-16  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-16  1:29 [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python Justin Whitney
2003-04-16  4:09 ` Daniel Armyr
2003-04-16  5:38 ` merv
2003-04-16  7:25   ` Jeff Rose
2003-04-16  8:49     ` merv
2003-04-16  8:19   ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2003-04-16  8:52     ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-04-16 20:54       ` Justin Whitney
2003-04-17 20:05         ` merv
2003-04-17  5:49     ` Joseph Carter
2003-04-17  6:27       ` George Shapovalov
2003-04-17 18:25         ` merv
2003-04-17  7:42       ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-04-16 22:44   ` Abhishek Amit
2003-04-17  6:45     ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-04-17 20:56       ` merv
2003-04-17 22:26         ` Caleb Shay
2003-04-17 23:32           ` merv
2003-04-17 18:18     ` merv
2003-04-16 21:08 ` Brad Laue
2003-04-17  6:47   ` Sven Vermeulen
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2003-04-16 11:13 merv

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