[Python-ideas] Draft PEP: Standard daemon process library

[Andrew Bennetts]

Jesse Noller wrote:
> 
> Since Antoine called me to the mat on this one, and I've been chewing
> on this more today - I think the cross-platformedness (is that a
> word?) idea is a good one, even if the Qt design doesn't necessarily
> apply here completely, having a single abstraction to both (but
> different modules under that abstraction based on os) is attractive
> (as Stephen pointed out).

Perhaps such an abstraction should be built on top of Ben Finney's
proposed unix daemon module, rather than built in?

-Andrew.