Re: [elephant-devel] New cache for elephant postmodern

2007-10-13 Thread Robert L. Read
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 15:48 +0200, Henrik Hjelte wrote: > > 1) Is the new feature configurable? That is, if I don't want to > set up > > any cron jobs, will everything still work out-of-the-box, even if I > > might not get the benefit of this caching? > Yes it is configurable, disabled by default

Re: [elephant-devel] New cache for elephant postmodern

2007-10-13 Thread Henrik Hjelte
On 10/12/07, Robert L. Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we should be a little cautious about adding a new dependency. > For example, the dependency on FiveAM for testing forces a lot of things > to be pulled in. But it makes testing better and easier, I filed a feature enhancement request

Re: [elephant-devel] New cache for elephant postmodern

2007-10-12 Thread Robert L. Read
I think we should be a little cautious about adding a new dependency. For example, the dependency on FiveAM for testing forces a lot of things to be pulled in. I certainly wouldn't want to make people have to set up a cron job to use something, and I for one don't even know how to do that on Windo

[elephant-devel] New cache for elephant postmodern

2007-10-12 Thread Henrik Hjelte
Hello, I have some new features for the postmodern backend, made by Alex Mizrahi. The most interesting thing is a cache that is safe to use between processes. It takes some steps to set up, for example you should make a cron job that cleans a table that is used to communicate updates between proces