[Grok-dev] Triggering recurring events and executing tasks in the "background"

[Tim Terlegård]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Sebastian Ware wrote:
> I have two questions in the "best practice" category. Since they are  
> related I am posting one message:
>
> 1 If I want to create a queue utility which executes tasks from a  
> task list in the background, how would I accomplish this?
>
> 2 If I want to have actions performed at preset times or at  
> intervals, how would I accomplish this?


There are atleast two options:

1) lovely.remotetask
     http://svn.zope.org/lovely.remotetask/trunk/src/lovely/remotetask/README.txt?rev=83297&view=markup

2) zope's internal clock server, there's an example
    http://svn.zope.org/Zope/trunk/doc/CHANGES.txt?rev=81697&view=markup

/Tim