[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC
Murray Taylor
MTaylor at bytecraft.com.au
Thu Apr 20 03:55:19 UTC 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brooks Davis
> Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2006 9:58 AM
> To: Bruce M Simpson; cokane at cokane.org; Eric Anderson;
> freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:43:43AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> > > My point is that we should let our purist values get in
> the way of others'
> > > enhanced experience using the system.
> >
> > My view is: We take the patch, as long as it doesn't interfere with
> > the internal machinations of rc too much.
> >
> > There are good aesthetic and functional arguments on either side.
> > Given the excellent work on rc to date, we have clean
> abstractions in
> > rc itself, so fitting colour-aesthetics in does not have a high
> > maintenance cost.
>
> I agree with this line of reasoning. So long as things are
> kept modular and don't cause maintance headaches when working
> on the internals I'd like to see this sort of work encouraged
> and encorporated into the tree. While there's something to
> be said for console output that shows everthing there's also
> something to be said for console output that only shows whats
> actually important. Giving people room to explore other
> options could yeild something much better than what we currently have.
>
> -- Brooks
My 0.02c worth - one of the Unix precepts for command line tools
is silence = no error
This is to consciously aid and abet the pipelining of programs....
Which is a major strength of Unix..
>From "The Art of Unix Programming"
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2877684
Also
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch11s01.html
The whole site is a good read.
And Albert speaks well too (see sig below)
mjt
--
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction."
--Albert Einstein
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