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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:17:05AM +0100, Bas van Gils wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:47:02PM -0800, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > I'm all for moving to his new system if it pans out.  Although I think 
> > we could get better mileage out of a pure bash init. ;)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just out of curiosity: Does anyone have a clue why the "maintainer" of
> simpleinit-msb would want to stop maintaining it and start (yet) another
> init-project? What's wrong with simpleinit-msb? I really like it (especially
> the fact that I can do just about everything with `telinit`). I'm not really
> in the mood for switching again, despite the good HOWTO on our Wiki last
> time..
> 
> Cheers

He didn't write 95% of telinit... rycee wrote the first draft of its 
internal functions (actually found in /etc/init.d/smgl_telinit, then I 
added some more crap to it (i.e. the parts you like ;) )

simpleinit-msb is not even most of the code anymore in our init system.

To answer your question:

He didn't write simpleinit; Richard Gooch did, and Gooch abandoned it.  
MSB took it up and forked it.  Now MSB wants a clean project in the same 
philosophy but coded to his own style.

simpleinit-msb right now is pretty stable at this point, and even though 
it could have a design revision to increase its orthogonality in some 
areas, it's working well for what we use it, and the scripts that 
surround it, for.  Personally, I could see some more ability to mangle 
with the internal linked list being useful for handling starting and 
stopping things in lower runlevels than the current runlevel without 
messing up shutdown order.

Seth

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