[Info-vax] systemd (was Re: openvms and xterm)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:41:06 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:

> But .INI format is not a classic unix file format and not as easy to
> parse as the real, classic unix file formats. I think of it as an
> abomination.

It’s very easy to deal with, and very popular among open-source 
developers. It’s so popular, there’s even a module in the standard Python 
library for parsing it. That’s why systemd adopted it.

I think it is Windows programmers who were conditioned to hate it, by 
Microsoft marketing.

>> Not so easy to selectively add/remove, enable/disable or start/stop
>> individual services.
> 
> In fact it is easy to do all that if you know how to edit text filesm
> either by hand or with tools like awk or sed.

Not really the best idea, when you can separate out the definitions into 
individual files. Less chance of accidentally altering something you 
didn’t mean to.