GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

(gnu.org.ua)

35 points | by smartmic 2 hours ago ago

27 comments

  • garciasn 21 minutes ago

    Almost 20 years ago now I worked for a company that sat a group of about 25 of us down to talk about their latest survey named...CRMPIES.

    Everyone looked at me like I was insane as I sat there chuckling. Thank you for bringing back that unfortunate memory.

  • tete an hour ago

    Everyone needs to have made a web framework. Everyone needs to have made a programming language. Everyone needs to have made a supervisor. Everyone has to have made a container manager. Everyone needs to have made a text editor.

    • killerstorm 2 minutes ago

      What's the value of making a supervisor? It seems to be mostly about gluing together some system APIs.

    • binaryturtle an hour ago

      Absolutely. I recently wrote my first compiler to get it off the bucket list… brainf*ck compiler/interpreter #100010134 or such? :-) Well… it was a fun half hour.

  • Alifatisk 19 minutes ago

    Are the collection of components run in some kind of namespace? Say I run a Pies for Gitlab (which in itself had lots of components), and I run a Pies for Frpd, do they share the same space or are they isolated from each other? Am I maybe overthinking this? Perhaps its just a program manager.

  • arjie 43 minutes ago

    One release every 4 years. So this is like monit or systemd-supervisord and so on, a process manager. I have to say the thing I most enjoy about it is the fact that it's got the classic GNU trend of "here's an obviously pronounceable spelling; let's say it a different way".

    • stackghost 38 minutes ago

      The only thing missing is a recursive acronym e.g. Pies: Pies Is Experimental Software or something equally cringe like Hurd

      • stevekemp 27 minutes ago

        Pies is eshewing systemd?

      • calvinmorrison 28 minutes ago

        how about "Active Development" without any progress in 3 decades

  • written-beyond an hour ago

    Is this the gnu version of systemd?

    edit: I know it's not a monolith like systemd but service/unit files are a core component of systemd

  • relaxing 42 minutes ago

    > pronounced "p-yes"

    Absolutely not.

    Apologies to the Slavs, but there’s already a utility pronounced like that.

  • evilmonkey19 an hour ago

    Pies it means "foot" in spanish

    • otterley an hour ago

      Plural - “feet”

    • baq an hour ago

      'a dog' in polish

  • asa400 39 minutes ago

    If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.