On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 13:05 +0200, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 19:19:17 schrieb Reinout van Rees:
Hi all,
In messages like http://www.mail-archive.com/zope3-dev@zope.org/msg05964.html, zc.async is mentioned as the solution for cron-like functionality in zope. Effectively you would not need zope2's clockserver.
Reading zc.async's docs, I cannot find how to do a given task regularly. For example a weekly pack. Or a daily call of one method that archives older items. That sort of stuff. Many things can be handled by cronjobs, but you tend to get a lot of them. And you don't want to embed the password everywhere.
Anyway: I cannot find the word "cron" anywhere in the zc.async source. Or "repetitive" or "regular". Is zc.async not intended for this kind of usage?
I personally recommend to also look at lovely.remotetask, as this does have direct cronjob functionality and is relatively simple to implement. I personally use it, however, I'm still a bit sceptic if it's really robust and scales well, moreover, I'm unsure if it is actively maintained.
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