Hm, if I understand correctly, we just need a smart crontab ->
cron.yaml converter then, right ? I can imagine other people needing
that too, so there might alredy be such things in the open, could
someone verify that ?

On Jul 21, 11:58 am, Hans Donner <[email protected]> wrote:
> gae has its own implemementation
>
> -http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html
> -http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/queue.html
> -http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/
>
> perhaps some kind of remapping (like cache) can do the trick
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:39, AchipA<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > GAE is not supported at the moment, but only because I don't use it
> > and there was no particular interest in it so far. If GAE has no means
> > of starting cron-style or long running processes, soft cron should
> > stil work, provided someone implements a locking mechanism that works
> > with GAE. The current implementation uses file operations as they are
> > universal on all platforms (i.e. move file is atomic - that's what the
> > infamous cron.master is for). Now, AFAIK this would not work on GAE,
> > but if you give/write an example that would replace that conditional
> > in a GAE-friendly way it should be no fus to gain cron on GAE out of
> > the box.
>
> > On Jul 21, 7:03 am, Vidul Petrov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Probably this topic has been discussed in the past, but I wasn't able
> >> to find anything.
> >> The cron script works fine (it's implemented as a controller method)
> >> unless running in the GAE testing environment.
> >> The username in app.yml is web2py, the same goes for the username in
> >> "crontab" file.
>
> >> Thank you for the help.
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