[Python-ideas] Draft PEP: Standard daemon process library
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Jan 29 22:28:33 CET 2009
Trent Nelson writes:
> There are two types of developers that will utilise this module.
> Those that are writing something for themselves, that never has to
> run anywhere else other than Unix.
Surely there is also the type that are writing *for others*, and want
the program to be both well-behaved and work on any Unix-like OS?
> Or those that work primarily or exclusively in Unix, but understand
> that others might want to run their code elsewhere.
Those people would be well served by a putative “service” interface.
I would welcome such a PEP from you, since you seem to have fairly
solid ideas of what it should look like.
> We should make it harder to write non-portable code, not easier.
It's a bit of a stretch to go from “designed to work on any Unix-like
OS” to “non-portable”.
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