On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:27:17PM +0200, Christophe David wrote: > Speaking for myself, I prefer the import feature quickly and possibly > some small delay sometimes that having to wait until an elegant > background solution can be found.
Doing things in the background isn't a really a problem -- PmWiki already backgrounds a number of tasks (for example, rebuilding .pageindex, sending out mail notifications via NotifyList, etc.). This is just another one of those. > >If we remove the restriction of renaming the file, then the > >import/ directory doesn't need to be writable at all. > > Indeed, but is it worth the trouble of having to manage which file > have already been processed, etc? Oh that's no problem -- once we've decided to check for imports, we just process those files that have timestamps newer than .lastimport . > And the external programs creating the files need write access too. Yes, but if they're running under a task such as cron(1), that's already been taken care of. > I don't want to push you, but if you could tell me how many nights I > still have to sleep before seeing it ;-) Could happen tonight (small probability), could be several days before I can get to it. I have a lot of stuff on my plate at the moment. But if I get a lot of "me too" requests for this feature, its priority goes up accordingly. :-) And it'll undoubtedly be a recipe, not a core feature. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
