+1 Thanks Donal for the summary. Cheers, Michel On 23 Feb 2006, at 9:11, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
A S McGough wrote:
3) Prioritise the items. From the session parallel jobs seemed to be the thing most people wanted next.
Just a quick note to say that the main reason for doing the parallel jobs stuff next (probably starting from the base proposed by the people from Barcelona; they've identified the stuff that's needed after all) is that otherwise there'll be several different groups doing it themselves in an incompatible way. To me, that says it is an *excellent* idea to foster a standard extension for this and to expedite this. OK, I think other extensions/improvements are more important in the grand scheme of things, but the fact that people are doing it now forces our hand.
Looking at the parallel proposal, I have to ask how it is supposed to be combined with the POSIX extension, since without that it's not going to work (still need command-line args, env-vars, etc.) Once we've nailed that down, I think it will be just A Simple Matter Of Writing. :-)
Donal.