Re: systemd controversy

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

On 3/13/24 22:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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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.