2015-11-16 11:06 GMT+01:00 Laurent Bercot <ska-dietl...@skarnet.org>: > > The technical impact of Denys's change was actually extremely small, > which is the main reason why it was not discussed (much) on the list.
Has it been discussed at all? I can't find anything regarding it and I'm pretty curious as to what caused the angry commit message. Best regards, Bartosz Golaszewski > The change was meant to send a political message, and it has done so > quite successfully. The message is: Busybox will not yield to > aggressive expansionism. > The message is not "Busybox needs a new init system" or "Busybox needs > a service manager". > > So far Busybox has done a good job of focusing on mechanism and > keeping away from policy decisions or endorsing a system more than > another. (And even though I like the model and have personal > interests in seeing it spread widely, I think adding tcpserver and > runit as busybox applets was unwise, because contrary to that > agnosticism.) > > I would like it to remain that way, *especially* when it's about > such a politically heavy weighted subject as a service manager. > > Busybox is useful when it's about providing clean, small > implementations of standard tools other implementations of would be > too big to fit on embedded platforms. > Good system software will naturally compile and fit into integration > projects without needing to be rewritten and be provided as a part of > Busybox. It is true for runit, it is true for the s6 family of tools, > it may be true for relaunchd (if you remove the build-time Ruby > dependency). > > Integrating that kind of software into busybox has no technical benefits, > it only serves to advertise the project; and that is unfair both to > competitors who refrained from attempting to get aboard the Busybox > train, and to Busybox users who have no wish to see their tool of choice > become a battleground for popularity contests and political agendas. > > -- > Laurent > > > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > busybox@busybox.net > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox -- Best regards, Bartosz Golaszewski _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
