[Zope] ClockServer 0.1 released

[Chris McDonough]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 11:05, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Chris McDonough  <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> > I was creeped out by Zope scheduling products that started a separate
> > thread to call methods at scheduled intervals and I got tired of setting
> > up cron+wget to call Zope methods via HTTP, thus:
> >  
> > http://plope.com/software/ClockServer
> > 
> > It works by posing as a medusa server, and injects things that look like
> > http requests into the publisher every so often.
> 
> Very nice.
> 
> I'm confused about the need for an external module for timeslice.
> What's wrong with:
> 
> def timeslice(period, when=0):
>     return when - (when % period)

That'd probably work. 

- C