[Zope3-dev] Re: Thread problems

[Peter Mayne]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Peter Mayne wrote:
> 
>> I'm creating a thread using the Python threading module to perform a 
>> long running task.
> 
> 
> I'm inclined to view this as "unsupported".  I'd rather go to a model where
> we allow very long-running requests (e.g. by supporting larger thread and
> database pools) are supported.
> 
> It is theoretically possible to support creating worker threads from Zope
> requests, but this brings in a lot of *extremely* advanced and subtle 
> issues
> that I don't want to support.

Fair enough. I've pulled the whole data loading part outside of Zope, 
and I'm doing it from the command line, which simplifies things somewhat.

PJDM
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