On 01/08/2014 21:35, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 01/08/2014 20:17, James wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> >>>> New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from >>>> 5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the solution to all >>>> ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not >>>> clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and implement no >>>> error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from STOUT >>> >>> Sounds like a department full of computer scientist I inherited a few >>> decades ago........... >> >> I've met folks like that.... >> Brilliant in their chosen field but completely useless outside it? The >> kind of fellows who see nothing wrong with eating a barbeque'd steak >> with a spoon because they can get a result? >> >>> >>> I know nothing bout chronos, but I find it an interesting read....ymmv. >>> >>> >>> http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/ >>> http://airbnb.github.io/chronos/ >>> https://github.com/airbnb/chronos >> >> Aaaaaaaah, now this sounds like something I can use. Proper dependency >> chains, Restful JSON interface so the devs can write code to drive it in >> automation. >> >> Good find, thanks! > > Unless I am missing something, chronos is not in the tree at all. >
Correct, it isn't in the tree. But there's nothing stopping me from getting it in there -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
