Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Daemon strategy Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 10:10:46 +1100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <85d1sb9eh7.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de UMjvRkJKMaf6UxeOZWtlTwQayxZ2KR/+spR3wVK2SbCA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:+VeT+ROhqzwcH4Ku+ErDzLeM91o= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.008 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'url:pypi': 0.03; 'pypi': 0.07; 'facts': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; '\xe2\x80\x94': 0.09; 'bug': 0.10; 'explicitly': 0.15; '2016': 0.16; '8bit%:32': 0.16; 'declares': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:strategy': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'deployment': 0.18; 'windows': 0.20; 'developers.': 0.22; 'platform,': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'feb': 0.23; 'unix': 0.24; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'compatible': 0.27; 'supported': 0.27; 'fri,': 0.27; 'specify': 0.27; 'btw,': 0.29; 'themselves': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'that.': 0.30; "can't": 0.32; 'getting': 0.33; 'run': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; 'requirements': 0.35; 'installing': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'needed': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'responsible': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'done.': 0.37; 'thought': 0.37; 'mean': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'field': 0.60; 'telling': 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.62; 'different': 0.63; 'fact,': 0.67; 'business': 0.69; 'skip:\xe2 10': 0.70; 'teach': 0.70; 'inform': 0.79; '_o__)': 0.84; 'hope.': 0.84; 'imagine,': 0.84; 'lacks': 0.84; 'pip': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21rc2 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:102568 paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com writes: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Since MS Windows lacks those facilities, ‘python-daemon’ can't use > > them. > > As you might imagine, I am not always able to specify which OS is > deployed. That does not mean that I am not responsible for getting the > work done. Perhaps you will tell me that what I want is not a daemon. I'm telling you none of those. What I'm telling you is MS Windows does not support what is needed to make a Unix daemon. You may need to re-visit the requirements and negotiate something different — a different deployment platform, or something which MS Windows can do which is less than a proper Unix daemon. > BTW, I thought that pip would know that python-daemon would not run on > my machine, but it had no complaints installing it. That gave me > unmerited hope. Sorry to learn that. The PyPI metadata for ‘python-daemon’ explicitly declares the supported OS limited to “Operating System :: POSIX”, which MS Windows is not compatible with. If ‘pip’ does not honour that field and inform you of the incompatibility, you may want to report a bug to the ‘pip’ developers. -- \ “My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves | `\ to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my | _o__) aspirations.“ —Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860-09-23 | Ben Finney