[haiku] Re: Network transfer, one Haiku machine to another ?

  • From: André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 20:34:51 -0300

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 17:33, Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, it is not.

So I hope!

>> Now, we all know how this story ends: a hundred thousand hacks to handle
>> dependencies and conflicts between services.
>
> Why exactly would that happen? In the case of sshd, just a link for its
> executable in this dir would suffice.

How exactly do you think the rc.d/init.d kludge was born?

See if this rings familiar: a quick hack, to serve a specific purpose;
never meant to be a permanent solution. But which sort of works well
enough and is also deemed simple enough so that it will be trivial to
replace by the eventual successor. But that suddenly gets used by more
and more people -- despite the clear hackish nature of it. And then
becomes sort of a de-facto way of doing similar stuff on the system
(here, starting services). Which then gets the committee treatment and
gets ratified into a standard.

> What part of "We could add something like this just to get things going"
> didn't you understand? To get this working we would have to add like 3 likes
> to Netscript (or it could be added to net_server itself).

I got that, crystal clear.

Your turn: what part of "let's not allow this to become the norm --
and let's not pretend we're immune to that, since History is full of
examples --, and how about taking this opportunity to either adopt an
existing, clean, proven solution to service management, or design our
own using the facilities exposed b Haiku?" you didn't get?


A.

(p.s.: WTF is the deal with the tone of people in this list nowadays?!)

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