On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:57:43AM +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> * make it possible to reuse taskengine for other things. ie
> Installshield type app, Peter's cron-server and other task based
> operations.
FWIW, I've mostly implemented an execution daemon for my
research framework, which uses ANT to handle the actual execution. Mostly
this is used to pass a remote daemon the class and parameters to execute.
I'd love to see this happen at a larger scale, and there are some
features and semantics which would make my life easier in this respect,
but much of it works as is.
In a few weeks (after I finish the paper and debugging) I can
show the code I have which does this if anyone is interested.
> * provide support for CJAN
>
> Q: In what way?
> A: Probably by supplying a set of tasks that download versioned
> binaries and their associated dependencies, caching the downloads
> in a known place and updating binaries when required. ("When required"
> being indicated by a change in property values).
This infrastructure is useful for more than just the proposed CJAN.
I have several developers working on projects on top of my infrastructure,
all of which have their own machines, their own jar files, their own
setup. I have an ant task which downloads the jars if necessary, installs
them in the workspace, etc. I'd make use of this type of infrastructure
locally.
-Seth
