On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:55 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
With something like D-BUS involved it's far easier to e.g. have GUI for progress meters, starting/stopping services, display meaningful error messages, and so forth. You also avoid some of the yucky issues such as stuck PID files. Basically it's a lot more deterministic and extensible.
Wasn't Seth (Nickell?) working on a Python/D-BUS init system prototype a while back? What happened to that?
Havoc