Re: [Queue-developers] Activity?

[Mike C. <da...@ix...>]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:23:28PM -0400, Raymond Page wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm curious if anyone is working on this project or knows much about 
> it.  I'm currently looking for the functionality this package provides, 
> however I can't get the package to build on my system.  I'm not looking 
> for support with that, I'm curious if there's any patches or more recent 
> versions than the 2001 1.4 beta.
> 
> Also, is this list even active?

Yes it is.

You should find that the CVS version from SF is in better shape as far as
compilation goes.

However, there are some known issues with it:

All of the tty stuff is ripped out with intent on rewriting it.
It's currently trivial to get into a dead-locked state, and so the protocol
needs some serious rework.  If you don't expect to have a flood of jobs
submitted in a very short time (things like 10 jobs within 1 second, for
instance), you're probably ok.

So, if you don't need tty support, and you will slowly be submitting long
running jobs, CVS version might just work for you.

I've recently switched jobs and getting up to speed there has severely cut
into my spare time, but that is starting to settle down now.  Working on
Queue has actually managed to bubble up again on my list.

mrc
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