>
> Not currently.  The main program must be a file downloaded from the server.
>

I assumed this, but I wanted to ask explicitly because Eric was asking me.



> We could potentially change this, but I'm not sure it would be useful.


> If the BOINC client were to invoke a python interpreter directly,
> the resulting job would not response to suspend or quit commands,
> and its CPU time would always show as zero.
>
It might be better to use the wrapper,
> which could easily be modified to run shell commands rather than execute
> files.
>

Agreed. Also, it would be nice to expose the suspend/quit/checkpoint api
(boinc_status) into Python, or is this already available?
--
Jeremy
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