[MeeGo-dev] Upstart in MeeGo?

[Arjan van de Ven]

  On 9/18/2010 7:23 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 2010/9/17 Greg KH<gregkh at suse.de>:
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:19:05PM +0300, Pertti Kellomäki wrote:
>>> Are there any plans re upstart in MeeGo? I'm asking because we have
>>> test scripts that use initctl to control daemons, so the scripts
>>> need to be modified if there is no upstart.
>> I would hope it would be on the roadmap for future releases.
> Huh? I think nowadays upstart can be considered deprecated:
> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html

just because someone is doing an experiment doesn't mean other things 
are deprecated....

systemd has design issues which have to be hashed out obviously (Fedora 
is punting on it for F14 for a reason)
upstart has license/contribution issues which are not pretty

MeeGo currently has a highly customized boot process, optimized for 
speed. At this point, if we were to switch,
upstart matches that closer than systemd does.... so upstart would be a 
more logical change if we were to change.

It's ok to have multiple competing technologies; that's one of the ways 
innovation happens in open source.. competition.