Re: PoC: cross-init-bridge

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Christian Seiler writes ("PoC: cross-init-bridge"):
> 1. Is there any interest in at least the current version of the
> cross-init-bridge? If so, I'll add a proper build system, fix the known
> quirks/bugs, call that "0.1" and make a debian package out of it. (I'm
> not a DD, so somebody else will have to upload it. ;-))

I haven't tried this but I think it sounds very interesting.

> 2. Is there any interest in the "big picture" idea? The improved version
> of my bridge would be complimentary to the debhelper proposed here, the
> design I'd chose is to NOT read unit files but have everything as
> command line arguments, and that the debhelper would generate the
> required arguments from the unit file. (That has the advantage that once
> generated, it's easier to debug those init scripts.) If that is the
> case, I'd volunteer to work on the improved version that can start
> daemons when started from sysvinit.

I think this is also very interesting.

Thanks,
Ian.