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)
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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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next prev 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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