[Taskforest-discuss] Fwd: Looking for TaskForest USERS!!!

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Lana:

Some more comments about calendars and Family dependencies:

The next major release of TaskForest after the one currently in development
(Tokens) will support Calendars.  You'll be able to associate a Family with
a calendar date file, which is essentially a list of all dates in the year
on which this Family will run, or you could use expressions that evaluate to
one or more dates. For example:

   1. Last Friday of every month
   2. Every July 4th, etc.

You could also apply binary operators like AND, OR, and EXCLUSIVE OR to
calendars to come up with custom calendars.

I expect this version to come out in May, 2009.

Now for dependencies between families:

I think I can do what you described by including some syntax that refers to
jobs in other families.  If Family F1 has job J1, and family F2 has job J2,
we could make J2 depend on J1 using syntax similar to this in F2:

F1::J1()
J2() # J2 will only run after J1 in F1 runs.

This is not supported yet, but it should be pretty easy to implement.  It's
a good idea and I'll let you know what I find out in a day or two.

Thanks,

Aijaz.