On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 at 09:46, Brian Scearce wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:27:09AM -0500, Jeffrey A. Krzysztow wrote:
> > Have you tried to use CRON to schedule any of the conversions?
>
> That is probably it -- I did add a couple of cron entries last week.
>
> > if the CRON is invalid, the JXL will not load properly and the display
> > will exhibit the symptoms you describe. Basically, an exception is
> > being thrown by the CRON method and not properly caught.
>
> Hm. I got an error message for an invalid cron entry the first time I
> tried it, then looked up how the Java cron specifier differs from Unix
> cron, fixed it, and the error message went away. So I don't think I have
> invalid cron entries right now, and the fact that I got an error message
> when I *did* have invalid cron entries makes me think that the exception
> is being caught. Maybe the bug has been partly fixed.
>
> But I'll change the cron entries back to weeklies when I get home.
> Many thanks for the help.
I had the same problem in older versions of JPluck (haven't tried more
recent ones. It seems the cron library in JPluck is an older version that
doesn't support some of the features that you'd expect. In particular,
the day-of-week support seems to be broken: you can'd do something that
updates on Tuesday and Wednesday, but not the rest of the week.
According to an email I received from Laurens (the developer) a couple
months ago, JPluck development has stopped for the most part and won't be
handed over to another developer. However, as it's an open source license
(BSD style?) someone could hypothetically fork a renamed project using the
code base. I know I'd be interested in seeing that happen with the
discussions I've seen about adding new features to the Plucker format.
Heck, just getting table support would be a great addition.
Thankfully, Laurens has continued to support his users.
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