[dev] [commits] Horde branch imp_6_1 updated. d6b64567a2a42f722b042bd63024919f8f7c95ec

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> FWIW I don't think any of this makes sense as part of Horde_Queue.  
> Horde_Queue is for things that could be done by a distributed  
> queuing system like Gearman. By definition, talking to an IMAP  
> server with a user's credentials is problematic since we don't  
> usually store user passwords for the active system. Anything  
> requiring session state, basically, is out. The sweet spot here is  
> things like crawling a bookmarked link in Trean, or generating  
> thumbnails in Ansel.

If this is what Horde_Queue is for - that is fine.  From the name I  
thought it was simply a generalized queue framework, since there is no  
documentation to the contrary.

> A generic, more featureful shutdown runner seems like a reasonable  
> thing to me, but it's different from Horde_Queue.

This indeed would be useful, so I will try to come up with something.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]