GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor

(gnu.org.ua)

42 points | by smartmic 2 hours ago ago

32 comments

  • garciasn an hour ago 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 2 hours ago 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.

    • binaryturtle 2 hours ago 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.

    • killerstorm an hour ago ago

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

      • trklausss 18 minutes ago ago

        In some industries it’s critical. Think about aerospace where code is almost always homegrown or done by specialized company, and are specific implementations for specific needs. You don’t have that many COTS due to the criticality etc.

  • arjie 2 hours ago 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 2 hours ago ago

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

      • stevekemp an hour ago ago

        Pies is eshewing systemd?

      • calvinmorrison an hour ago ago

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

  • gary17the 9 minutes ago ago

    Good to hear that some people out there still have some old-school -style sense of humor.

  • mgaunard 23 minutes ago ago

    The area where I've seen the most homegrown implementations of things like these is HFT, with the caveat it's also designed to be distributed, integrated with isolation systems, start/stop dependency graphs...

    I once worked for a company which chose to use Kubernetes instead, they regretted it.

  • Alifatisk an hour ago 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.

  • written-beyond 2 hours ago 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 2 hours ago ago

    > pronounced "p-yes"

    Absolutely not.

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

  • evilmonkey19 2 hours ago ago

    Pies it means "foot" in spanish

    • otterley 2 hours ago ago

      Plural - “feet”

    • baq 2 hours ago ago

      'a dog' in polish

  • asa400 2 hours ago ago

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