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

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Andrew Bennetts
<andrew-pythonideas at puzzling.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Perhaps; but it makes sense to nest it under the abstraction -
daemons.unixdaemon/winservice/osxdaemon