Re: [Pyatcron-devel-list] Explanation on the cron time entries (Was: Some comments on Brian code)

[Julien Olivier]

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:01, NICOLOVICI Xavier wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I love those long thread discussions on specific topics, this is why I love 
> open source coding, it makes people think by themselves.
> 
> Okay, here is my two cents tip about this */45 cron entry.
> 
> According to the Cron documentation, the "/X" is the step that cron should 
> use to browse the prepending unit range. In other words, "4-10/2" means start 
> from 4 and step forward 2 digits until you reach 10. So, the "*/45" entry 
> should execute the task every 45 minutes (according that hour entry is "*" of 
> course).
> 
> So we might have a problem using arrays of integer to expressed that, but 
> lucky we are, Python doesn't really matter about the type of variables. The 
> function prototype should expect a list (or array if you prefer), but in 
> Python, a list can contain every kind of type, even a mix of different types. 
> According to that, the setMinute() function prototype (and the others for 
> hour, date and so) should be setMinutes(<list>) and the getMinute() function 
> should return a string with the <list> values comma separated. What do you 
> think of that, does it sounds good?
> On top of that, this comma separated string should be returned by the 
> CronEntry class getCommand only. The AtEntry one won't have to deal with 
> interval, as At is a "one shot" execution.
> 

Why not simply using strings everywhere ? In fact, we will do nothing
with these parameters except write them to the crontab file. So I think
a string is more than enough, don't you ?

> Now, the problem I see will be more on the GUI side. We will have to think 
> about a way to let the user plan such tasks (every XX minutes, or every YY 
> hours). For me, the real problem is here. How the GUI will be designed to 
> allow such entries?
> 

Well, we could have something like:

----

 Execute the task on [  ]/[  ]/[    ]

 [ ] Then, repeat the task every [XXX  ]  |Seconds |
                                          |Minutes |
                                          |Hours   |
                                          |Days    |
                                          |Months  |
                                          |Years   |

----

Wouldn't that cover most of the cases ? Of course, we could use Brian's
advanced schedule dialog to tweak it up later.

-- 
Julien Olivier <address@hidden>