[Zope] Best Event system for Zope?

[Chris McDonough]

FWIW, I created a Zope branch that has a "clock server" which doesn't
require a third-party process to act as a clock.  It's in CVS as the
chrism-scheduling-branch branch.  See
http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/more_scheduling/newsitem_view for
more information.

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 08:45, Terry Hancock wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:28 pm, Etienne Labuschagne wrote:
> > Thanks for the feedback Dieter and Terry,
> > 
> > Using a cron job is probably the fastest, easiest and most pragmatic way 
> > for us programmers.  My job as a programmer, however, is to make life even 
> > easier for my clients.  My clients mostly use Windows and gets a glazed 
> > look in their eyes when I start talking about running this script and 
> > running that script.  
> 
> Actually, in my experimental tests, I launched the heartbeat script I
> showed you via os.system() from a trigger in __setstate__ in my product's
> instance. So it doesn't require the user to do anything extra.
> 
> I haven't tested this in a production environment, but it worked
> in my prototype (I was using this to have a "store" app interface
> to the credit processor by sending an email, then catching the
> reply -- so it had to check the mailbox periodically.  In my tests,
> I was using my email aliasing to just forward the email back to
> the server's listening address).
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry
> 
> --
> Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
> Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com
> 
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