If it works for you, sure, but I expect that future to be in 1.57 :)
As a bonus feature, if you use db mode (required on GAE) you will get
a 'free' cron log, too.
On Feb 26, 1:44 pm, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
> On Feb26, 7:35pm, AchipA <attila.cs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Feb 26, 5:23 am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
>
> > > I don't really understand how cron patch works but, since the global
> > > crontype equals to "Soft" by default, is there some reason causing the
> > > win distrib to detect itself as running in cgi or wsgi mode and
> > > therefore the soft cron mode?
>
> > Not really detecting - when you start via web2py.py it sets hard cron,
> > no special checks anywhere (that's why -H doesn't make sense). As you
> > yourself noted, global import variables can be tricky/ugly and
> > apparently do not work the same way when compiled or py2exe-d.
> > Probably will have to introduce a file-based scheme (which is in the
> > works anyway to prevent multi-process race conditions), but it's not
> > that easy as workarounds for GAE will be needed..
>
> > > When I import
> > > this module and change it (indirectly), I still do not sure what is
> > > its value when another part of code import this module again. It just
> > > smells bad. :-/
>
> > Agreed, I do intend of changing this in the future.
>
> Before that future comes, how about this dirty hack? I do not fully
> test it due to not know how to build another windows distribution by
> my own. So I just guess it might work.
>
> Create this function in applications/myapp/controller/default.py:
> def test():
> import sys
> return {'':sys.argv[0]}
> And visit it.
>
> If you are running web2py from the source code, you get the output as
> "web2py.py".
> If you are running web2py from the windows distrib, you get the output
> as "web2py".
>
> So we can try this after the definition of crontype in cron.py:
>
> crontype='Soft'
> if sys.argv[0]=='web2py': # Likely running in a windows distribution
> crontype='Hard' # Force it to hardcron. Somehow necessary. :-/
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