Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com> writes:
Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
[…] how would an implementation on Windows need to change the API given in this PEP?
Yes, that's the question. You should figure out the answer, or find some more folks who can help you figure out the answer, and update the PEP to reflect it.
Based on what I can see in the Python Cookbook (e.g. <URL:http://code.activestate.com/recipes/551780/>), Windows doesn't even call it a “daemon”, instead calling it a “service”. The customisation options and expected behaviour are wildly different from what a Unix programmer would expect. So I think that a module for creating Unix-style daemons, with API and options geared toward making that easy, has no business also getting involved with creating Windows services. It would result in an unduly complicated API for no benefit to either Unix programmers or Windows programmers. If someone else wants to offer a separate PEP to include a ‘winservice’ module to the standard library, that seems a better way forward for that use case. -- \ “I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono | `\ album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and | _o__) then it's over.” —Ian Wolff | Ben Finney