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

[Johan Carlsson [Torped]]

At 20:40 2002-10-05 +0200, Joachim Werner said:
>"I've noticed that Xcron uses ZPublishers client to trigger events.
>This seems a bit out-dated to me, wouldn't it be better to use
>restrictedTraverse?"
>
>After looking at Xron in more detail and comparing it to the Scheduler=
 stuff
>in the Zope CVS, I guess that going the Scheduler way is probably more
>promising in the long run. Xron seems to have quite a few major design
>flaws. One I haven't mentioned yet is that you can only trigger DTML
>methods. In a modern Zope installation, you'd probably want to call Scripts
>(Python) more often, though of course you can call everything FROM DTML ..


Yes. I also see at least one pre-built events like a DBPackEvent and=20
possibly more.

Events may need to be restricted to only be created in the Scehduler.
Not sure that we need this one. Just an idea that pop by :-)

Regards,
Johan Carlsson

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