-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/2010 10:54 AM, Julian Edwards wrote: > On Monday 27 September 2010 14:51:32 Aaron Bentley wrote: >> On 09/27/2010 07:26 AM, Julian Edwards wrote: >>> I firmly believe that restricting it to a task dispatching system will >>> limit what we can do, so I agree. >> >> I generally see limiting scope as a good thing, not a bad thing, so I >> don't agree with your conclusion. > > My conclusion is little to do with limiting the scope of building a task > system. It is everything to do with building a scalable and fast Launchpad.
I thought "it" referred to the task dispatch system work. I get you now. > However, since it is likely that we'll be using a messaging > system to manage the tasks, I'd be extremely upset if you implemented it so > that its features can't be used outside of the new job system. Sure. > I have already explained that I want to use message passing in some of my > pipelined processing and I don't want to use the Job API to do this, partly > because it has been an utter disaster trying to bend the API for the build > farm to use it I am sorry that using the Job API has been a problem for you. I would appreciate feedback on how we can improve it. I don't want you having to bend it. >, and partly because modelling everything as a job is not useful > when all we want is a simple event. We will have to examine this use case in greater detail at some point, because so far, I don't understand why you wouldn't want a Job. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkygsxoACgkQ0F+nu1YWqI3beACffwcHb2V8+0E8DaSTGSWOjY2n ik0AniYMSzw392DOMUSHBuTiI1m4M6CO =QNpG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
