Loren Stafford wrote:
From: "Bill Anderson" <bill@libc.org>
Loren Stafford wrote: ...
So how about this: I invite other developers to create rescheduler sub-products for Xron. If you create a rescheduler product, let me know about it, and I'll link to it from the Xron product page. Your product could be a Python product or a ZClass product. There's probably room for something like "Simple Rescheduler for Xron", which would do Weekly, Hourly, and OneTime; and "Cron for Xron" which would be a full cron-like interface; and maybe a product of intermediate complexity. The "Simple Rescheduler" would make a good first-time ZClass project. The developer would need to know how to write a ZClass, how to handle PropertySheets in a ZClass, and how to use DateTime.
Does this sound like a good plan or a bad one? Any takers?
I am actually working on a simple scheduling product based on Xron. Though it wasn't originally intended for public consumption, I may be convinced to at least put it up for download.
Bill,
Can you tell us a little about your product? Where does it fall on the scale from "Simple" to "Cron"?
Fairly simple. I have a Product I called EventScheduler or something (it's at work, I am at home), that basically sublasses Event, and aghs the reschedule method like you talked about. So far, I have Daily Event and Weekly Event. They should work, but they haven't been in use long enough to know. I did it this afternoon (my time: US/Mountain), so I'll know tomorrow on the Daily. Bill -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy, and have the root password.