I've not had chance to go over Leo's architecture notes in enough detail (at a quiet time) in order to respond to them completely. I keep wanting to find time. The first point that I'd like to address, when I do, is that I don't believe that Python Gump (I will start referring to it as Gump, implying it is just 2.0) reverted to a batch approach, per se.
Maybe I am splitting hairs, but Gump can perform a 'run' of one or more projects, upon them alone or the dependency stack beneath them. Since Gump needs to behave in a certain (dependency) order when N>1, the N=1 case is a little bloated, but it is doable today. The reason I care about this distinction is that I feel we don't need a major re-work in order to satisfy targeted runs. I think this is most clearly seen if we bring the GUI, that Sam/Nicola worked on, out of mothballs. I'd love to see that done, 'cos I think it brings good issues to the surface. With the GUI I think we can allow a user to pick N projects, and can perform an update or a run, or whatever. I also think a GUI is especially useful for resolving some of the concerns over documentation, and timeliness, and format. I think that a listener (being passed context with status) could be called whenever a project is built (or whatever) and could represent/display state as it proceeds. I've always respected the Gump GUI & liked what it brings to this mix, I've just never had enough cycles to maintain it as I fleshed out the more 'agent' way of doing things. For the GUI to really fly I believe we need some internals changes (separating all 'run' information into context objects and off the metadata model objects, so we can re-run without re-loading metadata) but I think this is worthwhile. So, my random thought is ... could we find folks to care about this use case, and bringing it to feature completeness as a parallel effort to the remote agents and their sites (via forrest or cheetah or both or ...) regards, Adam -- Experience the Unwired Enterprise: http://www.sybase.com/unwiredenterprise Try Sybase: http://www.try.sybase.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
