[Zope-dev] http://cvs.zope.org/Products/Scheduler vs Xron for cron-like functionality. Advice?

[Johan Carlsson [Torped]]

 > > 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

Hi All,
I'm interested in starting to maintain Xron, if it has potential to be a
stable products.
 From the code it doesn't seem to do any strange things, but I would
like to know if anybody has experience of using it in a production
environment, or any other experiences and that would recommend not
using it in a production environment.

The central feature I'm interested in is the ability to setup packing
policies inside Zope.
I know many people uses Cron or Scheduler but I like to have one
platform independent solution and preferably inside the Zope process.

Regards,
Johan Carlsson