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Suggestions for Init System Features?

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday November 23 2014, @01:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the first-do-no-harm dept.

Subsentient writes:

I am the maintainer of the Epoch Init System, a single threaded Linux init system with non-intrusiveness in mind, and I'm preparing to release 2.0. It's mostly a code cleanup release, but while I'm at it, I thought I'd ask the Soylent community what features they'd like to see. I'm open to all good ideas, but I'm wary of feature creep, so as a result, I won't consider the following:

* multithreaded/parallel services, because that goes against design goals of simplicity and harms customizability
* mounting support or networking support; it's an init system, use busybox if you need a mount command.

So what do soylentils want to see in the next release of the Epoch Init System?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by crutchy on Sunday November 23 2014, @07:38AM

    by crutchy (179) on Sunday November 23 2014, @07:38AM (#119051) Homepage Journal

    listen to users, but above all enjoy what you do.

    only suggestion i would add that might make thing easier for yourself is maybe some automated regression testing. doesn't need to be big and fancy, or even complete.

    i find that some simple tests can take some of the stress of making changes, and when you run them and you get a nice "all tests passed!" message it's very uplifting.

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