On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 21:18 -0600, JT Smith wrote: > I want to turn it into a workflow system. If you think about it, > workflow is nothing but a set of transactional tasks (nothing new) with two > additional > components (here's where it get's weird). The two additional components are > cron > (scheduling) and queue (a task executor).
Earl Cahill and I talked about how to use apache for a queue system on the list a while back. In the end, we both decided it was a bad idea. Apache is a very flexible network server, but this task is very unlike a network server. I ended up writing a simple forking daemon with Parallel::ForkManager that stores the queue in a database, and I think Earl ended up with something similar. - Perrin
