Paralell startup

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:58 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 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?

It was just a prototype, I guess not finished. The hard part after all
is switching over the system and fixing all the bugs.

Havoc