[Zope-dev] Re: Event & Timer Service for Zope 2.8

Dylan Jay gmane at dylanjay.com
Thu Jul 21 23:36:57 EDT 2005


Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Chris' ClockServer removes the need for such a thread, by hooking
> ZServer's mainloop to generate the "faux" request needed to kick off
> async processing.  A "crontab" - like schedule can be driven equally
> well from ClockScheduler as from a separate thread.

So what's wrong with including ClockServer in the core or making it 
easier to install? (ie not having to put packages in the python path 
which is hard with some hosting arrangements)

And what's the argument against a core scheduler regardless of a clock? 
Isn't running background tasks a common need amoungst many very 
different tools and therefore a interstructure issue?



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