Maybe CRON can handle this job? Or isn't it a good idea to have the core of Cocoon depent on CRON?
Bart. > > The current implementation of our continuations manager uses > the excalibur event package for the background checker that > checks for expired continuations. > > Now, this approach has the problem, that excalibur event is > deprecated. In addition we aren't using it somewhere else, > so it would be great if we could remove this dependency. > > Yesterday, I wrote a simple replacement which I checked into 2.2: > a simple background thread is initialized that sleeps for a > configured period of time, checks the continuations, sleeps etc. > Now, this solution should work. > > The question is now, should I port this to 2.1.x as well? Are there > better solutions? > > Carsten > > Carsten Ziegeler > Open Source Group, S&N AG > http://www.s-und-n.de > http://www.osoco.net/weblogs/rael/
