Re: systemd controversy

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:05:20 +0100, streaksu wrote:

> On 3/13/24 22:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> If you are writing code that will run as one or more server processes,
>> you will likely also want to provide scripts/config to manage those
>> processes. For systemd, that could be service definition files.
> 
> ... to my understanding, that might be better managed by distribution /
> OS maintainers, rather than developers.

I was thinking more about code being written for in-house use by 
particular customers--I should have made that clear.

However, what you say is true for open-source code that is being 
published. Though I suspect it would still be helpful to provide some info 
about how interlocking processes are supposed to fit together, and 
systemd .service files could serve as a lingua franca for that, even for 
distros that don’t use systemd. The declarative systemd unit-file syntax 
should be easier to translate to other forms than perhaps going the other 
way.