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[Elisamuel Resto <ryuji AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:02:38 +0800, "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim"
<jfs.world AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/07, Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:
> > On Apr 08, Elisamuel Resto [ryuji AT mages.ath.cx] wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > >    A while back I remember somebody talking about working on
> > > getting upstart in smgl, but I have not heard anything about it
> > > since then, and that was months ago. I'm wondering if there's any
> > > other solution to simpleinit that we can use in Source Mage...
> >
> > Right now it's really just waiting for someone to actually go
> > implement another init.  Make an alternate init spell and some init
> > scripts it needs, cast it, dispel simpleinit.  Get a few of those
> > available, get init handling out of sorcery so it's not hardcoded
> > to simpleinit, etc.
> > 
>
> sorry mate, but i dont think it's going to be as simple as that. You
> will still need to link all your applications against libupstart if u
> want to be able to handle generating (and responding to?) events....
> It's going to represent quite a major change.

Can you provide some links to read up on that? I'd like to see how
"required" this is and how far deep one needs to link to this library. 

> > Plenty of people talk about it, no one has done it yet.  It's on my
> > list but behind other things (I've been putting in a *lot* of
> > non-verbal time on this mirroring thing the last week or two; when
> > that is done I plan to dig into the installer stuff next).
> >
> 
> :) well, this work behind the scenes is appreciated!

There is always something going on behind the scenes ;)


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Elisamuel Resto <ryuji AT mages.ath.cx>
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