----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Harsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 24 March 2004 03:08 Subject: DRMAA namespace (DRMAA - Distributed Resource Manager Application API)
> Hi all, > I have created a module that is a Perl binding to the drmaa spec, > http://www.drmaa.org. The drmaa spec is to abstract an API for submitting > jobs to different supporting job schedulers (so a method to distribute jobs > over a network). The DRMAA provides a framework for job schedulers much > like ODBC provides one for databases. Using DRMAA, the user is protected > from the details of the job schedulers, also referred to as DRM's > (Distributed Resource Managers). I'm looking to post this module to CPAN in > the next few weeks and am wondering about the namespace. I'm currently > leaning towards DRMAA (in all caps), and possibly a follow up module later > called DRMAA::Simple, which would provide a set of functions that wrap > together many of the DRMAA calls into do-it-all-at-once type calls. A pity the acronym isn't DRAMA - this would have had much more buzzword potential ;). > It could be argued though that someone may want to create other DRM type > modules, say one that gives all the functionality of DRMAA plus specific > functions available to a particular DRM, like SGE > (http://gridengine.sunsource.net ). Or perhaps a DRM module that provided > an API to configure the resources of the DRM, like adding nodes, changing > run time calendars, etc. (currently DRMAA is just intended for launching and > monitoring jobs ) > > So, perhaps a better namespace might be: > > DRM::DRMAA > DRM::DRMAA::Simple > and then later there could be > DRM::SGE > DRM::LSF > DRM::OpenPBS > etc. > > Comments, suggestions?? > Why look to a new top level namespace? Who else has heard of, or would think of DRM or DRMAA if they want scheduling. Consider Schedule::. This is where I think your module belongs. e.g. Schedule::DRMAA, Schedule::DRMAA::Simple, Schedule::DRM::SGE etc. This is an existing namespace that holds the likes of Schedule::Cron and Schedule::Depend. My $0.02 Ivor.
