http://cvs.zope.org/Products/Scheduler vs Xron for cron-like functionality. Advice?
Hello: I am looking for a way to schedule events within my Zope-based web application. Here are my requirements: - Zope 2.5.1 platform - Win/UNIX/Linux compatibility - Ability to view and modify scheduled events - repeating and one-time events - ZPT based or integratable - Easy to integrate into my application (e.g. event executes my method, I can display lists of pending events within my own custom forms) It looks like there are two likely options: http://cvs.zope.org/Products/Scheduler -vs- http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Xron The Xron product release is almost a year old, but Scheduler seems to be only available via CVS. Can anyone comment as to the maturity/stability of these products? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks! --Craeg
The Xron product release is almost a year old, but Scheduler seems to be only available via CVS.
Can anyone comment as to the maturity/stability of these products? Any advice would be much appreciated.
I can't vouch for either of the products you mentioned, but I've had good luck with cron on linux teamed with wget :-) There doesn't seem to be much support in Zope for use cases where an action is not event driven, ie not a request/response pair. *** Vaporware Follows*** What *I* want, (but haven't written yet) is a product that can do continuous low level scraping of legacy data sources and feed this data into an RDBMS or the ZODB. A kind of "helper daemon". How each instance is scheduled would be one of many adjustable per instance config options :-) However, assuming that I do get around to building this product, I don't know where on the scale between ugly hack and elegant, reusable solution it will fall. This will also determine whether you ever see it on "zope.org" :-) Adam
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