[Initscripts-ng-devel] Defining the workgroup objectives

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:24:01AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> Here's what I envision this workgroup doing as a starting point.  I'd like
> to receive comments so that we can produce a "getting started" document for
> people who join us later, and go on to the interesting stuff ASAP.
> 
> Workgroup Objectives:
> 
>  1.  Design a distribution-agnostic interface layer for packaging systems
>      to deal with static order-based (sysv-rc classic), static dependency-based
>      (init-ng, LSB), dynamic dependency-based (runit?), and hybrid
>      static-dynamic dependency based initscript subsystems

I once saw an article on IBM's developerworks (sorry I can't find the link)
about an init system based on Makefiles and make -jN to spawn parallel jobs, do
you know about any progress of this or it was no more than proof-of-concept?

filippo