Upstart Client Library

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/12 Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) <sarvi at cisco.com>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>       As Garret Cooper mentioned earlier, my team at Cisco is thinking of
>> working with Upstart as a process manager.
>>
>> One of the questions that have come up with respect to a client library to
>> control Upstart.
>>
>> There is a need for a process to talk/listen to the UpstartInit process for
>> the following
>>    1. Notifications about the state of a process.
>>    2. Request Upstart to read a new/update job file.
>>    3. Send an event to Upstart to trigger the start of a job.
>>
>> The above functions are part of the upstartctl command, but need to be in a
>> library form that can be linked into another application so that it can
>> interact with Upstart.
>>
>> Now it should be relative;y simply to create client library with some well
>> defined API, and for the most part this already seems to be available in the
>> form of message definitions in the upstart directory.
>>
>> But they are in GPLv2 licensing. I would suspect such a client library that
>> could be linked to many 3rd party applications needs to be LGPLed instead of
>> GPLed?
>>
>> What are our options here?
>>     We could write/release our own LGPLed client library that talkes to
>> UpstartInit but that  would still need to share some header files and stuff
>> relating to message definitions, error numbers, etc. or duplicating them and
>> trying to keep them in sync.
>>     Are there better options?
>
> I'd say, wait for 0.5 and use the D-Bus interface.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael

Michael (and crew),
      Is a prerelease of this version available in CVS/SVN/GIT/etc?
Thanks,
-Garrett