-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Dec 2006, at 14:53, Jim Fulton wrote:
I don't think it ever caused anyone any headache apart from maybe working around different ways in which forking/daemonizing is handled on some platforms (OS X comes to mind).
Any software we own is an inherent liability. Of course, hopefully, most things we own provide enough benefits to overcome this inherent liability.
I agree that there may not be alternatives compelling enough to justify a change.
To be honest, I'm coming across many situations where maintenance and upgrade issues make me wish the original developers had reinvented a couple wheels instead of relying on third party packages. Even if they work fine right now you'll have the risk of incompatibilities or lack of reaction when it comes to fixing bugs that make your life harder down the line. zdaemon is a little different of course, it's a "standalone" functionality in a way. It's not some Zope product that other packages rely on. jens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFjTzTRAx5nvEhZLIRAlQGAJ9CJkklU/H9cyn+ayTPWQDjm8zOUQCggj9p zaBUE/Pze8m+cEr2P6ghUxk= =PLqx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----