Re: GNU Shepherd 0.9.0 released

[Jack Hill]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022, Ognen Duzlevski wrote:

> Tim Van den Langenbergh <tmt_vdl@gmx.com> writes:
>
> > Ognen Duzlevski <maketo@sdf.org> writes:
> >
> > > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> > > > We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.8.1.  This release
> > > > represents 49 commits by 3 people, bringing a new concurrent,
> > > > event-driven core, improved logging, and on-demand service startup.
> > >
> > > Does Shepherd only run on Linux?
> > >
> > > It is intended for use on GNU/Hurd, but it is supposed to work on every
> > > POSIX-like system where Guile is available.  In particular, it has been
> > > tested on GNU/Linux.
> >
> > So if you prefer to run the Hurd rather than Linux, it should work fine.
>
> Tim, thanks!
>
> I run FreeBSD and it uses kqueue instead of epoll so even if Guile
> technically runs on FreeBSD, fibers do not.
>
> I don't mind submitting a patch to make this happen.

Some pointers you might find helpful:

When Ludo’ originally announced this work⁰, this limitation was known, 
but, fortunately, work is already underway to bring fibers to other 
platforms via libevent¹.

0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-03/msg00125.html
1: https://github.com/wingo/fibers/pull/53

Best,
Jack