Upstart 0.6.3 coming to a rawhide near you

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Dec 5 15:53:00 UTC 2009


Sir Gallantmon (ngompa13 at gmail.com) said: 
> Why aren't the sysVinit scripts being ported over to native upstart scripts?
> I thought the reason why upstart was adopted was to be able to utilize the
> benefits of native upstart scripts (event based daemon handling, etc.)?

- Semantics may change for 1.0 (although they're trying to keep the format
  the same between 0.6 and 1.0)
- A system that's half-upstart and half-SysV has a variety of compatiblity
  problems, if you ever need to have dependencies between them.

Bill




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