From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-12-11T19:41:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28197] Re: ANNOUNCE: Distributor (a task distribution system)

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Phil Tomson wrote:

> >From the README file:
> 
> "What is it?"
> I call it the Distributor Library Framework because there are several 
> classes involved on both the client and server-sides.  
> 
Great news Phil.

I haven't checked it out yet so should probably shut up but a q:

* Have you added support for "vanilla" jobbs, ie. running ordinary apps
and not only Ruby code? In general this is hard (because of lib/dll hell
etc) but I'm thinking something simple like the user has to specify all
files needed to execute the job, the command line args etc. I'm not sure
this is on your agenda but I'd love to see your stuff evolve into Ruby's
plug-and-play solution for distributed execution. I guess it amounts to
writing a FileArchive/Tar class that implements a run method. Its on my
TODO but the TODO is long so someone else? ;-)

Regards,

Robert