On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Maybe we should add process scheduling into Apache, and a file system, and
> a window manager, and...
:-)
> Okay, I'm being silly, and there are times when duplication is necessary,
> but cron is such a well-established way of solving this problem that
> anything else sounds strange.
>
> The original post didn't say that the goal was to modify the scheduled
> jobs dynamically from mod_perl, and that does add a new wrinkle. I still
> think a good Perl interface to cron would be more obvious and more
> reliable.
Perhaps its the difference between people who've had to write shrink-wrap
apps? The question for me is dependencies. We add in Schedule::Cron or
whatever and then you've got to add in LWP or HTTP::GHTTP or HTTP::Lite
to do the request. Its just something that would be useful to a lot of
people, IMHO.
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