From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5625 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Apr 2003 08:19:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2339 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2003 08:19:33 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:19:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <3E9D168C.10392.73F5440@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E9D168C.10392.73F5440@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_TIRn+lCNLTRuJiC"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200304161019.31869.gentoo-user@devrieze.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python X-Archives-Salt: a3304890-22e6-4072-8d09-ce11eb68ab43 X-Archives-Hash: 2a3e0ff394512a38cd1a9df456f94ac9 --Boundary-02=_TIRn+lCNLTRuJiC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 anything but sh is overkill. In the cases where something special is requir= ed=20 it is very well possible to use python/any other language either embedded o= r=20 instead of the standard interpreter. (You could even make init scripts in c) Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv --Boundary-02=_TIRn+lCNLTRuJiC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+nRITNb2zbbdIrucRAl1qAJ93nA+fEMGcve9NGfP5dF1yPpx4DwCfac8e En5xWl2q0IvkmH1gsONyk8g= =6esB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_TIRn+lCNLTRuJiC--