Re: [gentoo-dev] initscripts in python

["merv" <merv@spidernet.com.cy>]

thanks for the link and the encouragement

i have been in this discussion now for a couple of days (since the first 
post entitled "initscripts in python") and am preparing to sit down and 
plan this "extensible shell plugin" somewhat more deliberately and 
carefully.

several people have posted links to previous attempts/projects at this 
kind of things and all of them seem to have fizzled out over time.  of 
course this is part of the nature of community development but 
perhaps it is also an indication of the size of this task.

I am a C programmer by profession so I guess that's where I'll start but 
I want to build in Python/C APIs as early as possible since Python has 
been the topic of the discussion and seems a particularly good place to 
start in view of its syntactical/semantic "cleanness", besides being 
Gentoo fodder.  I intend very much that an extensible shell with Python 
plugin should be a testing bed and that others will follow, including 
Perl, Ruby etc etc ... whatever there is a demand/need/curiosity for.  
And the implementation will need breaking down into build-
time/emerge packaging, initscripts/boot-time related code, extensible 
(dynamically loadable) shell environment code, script-
loading/reading/interpreting code, etc etc etc

watch this space...patiently (I have four babies and seven kittens 
besides a full time job :) )

"IDEAS MAKE SOFTWARE BEAUTIFUL" - so keep 'em comin' !

On 17 Apr 2003 at 18:26, Caleb Shay wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 16:56, merv wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > >From my own point of view, the underlying theme of the idea is the 
> > concept of a more "extensible" shell. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I saw this line and thought "A plugin extensible shell, how cool would
> that be?  You want perl regexps?  Load the preg extension.  Don't use
> tab-completion?  Don't load the tab-completion extension and save some
> ram.  A quick google turns up:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxsh/
> 
> Doesn't look like it's seen much activity lately, but what a great idea!
> 
> Caleb
> 
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