From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-02-06T09:01:03+09:00
Subject: ANN: TaskMaster 0.1.1


TaskMaster 0.1.1 is released.  Mostly bug fixes, but some other stuff as 
well, most notably there is an example under the examples directory - 
yeah, it's pretty lame (a distributed sleep) but it shows how to use many 
of the current TaskMaster features (not all).  I'll be adding more 
examples in upcoming releases (the next one I'll add is an example that 
does an estimate of pi using Monte Carlo method).   Here's the ChangeLog:

changes in 0.1.1:
* Changed the organization of the code: everything is now defined under 
the
  TaskMaster module.  Also introduced TaskMaster::Mixins as a place to
  put modules that are intended to be mixed into classes.
* TaskMaster::Distributor reintroduced (Distributor class was changed to
  TaskMaster in 0.1.0)
* Client is now TaskMaster::Slave (done to reduce confusion)
* ClientProxy is now TaskMaster::SlaveProxy (again to reduce confusion)
* Fixed a nasty bug in TaskMaster::Distributor#broadcast
* Fixed a bug in SlaveProxy#harvest (wouldn't handle cases where 
Slave#harvest
  returned nil)
* Added an 'examples' subdirectory and a 'distributed_sleep' example with
  a fairly detailed README file.
* Updated TODO file



Phil