Dear Rich,

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@palm.com> wrote:

Has anyone considered the possibility of introducing upstart to oe-core, perhaps as an alternative?

How would people feel about patches to do that?

I ask because "classic", (read, "former" and "proprietary"), WebOS used upstart and we're considering whether to attempt to continue to do so as we move to oe-core, or whether to attempt to convert all of our components over.  Either way, we have to convert a bunch of service scripts.  And if we're going to convert a bunch of service scripts for oe-core components, (as distinct from porting service scripts for Palm components), then it would be much easier of those patches were to find their way into oe-core rather than needing to be maintained separately.

The support for Upstart would be welcome for sure however we need to avoid the same mistakes we did in Systemd support; I'd say it ought to start as a separate layer in meta-oe for the beggining and after it has been properly polished we can evaluate the possibility to merge it onto oe-core.

Current systemd classes can give you a good work base.