[DRMAA-WG] DRMAA Jan 9, 2007 call minutes

[Hrabri Rajic]

Attendees:

Andreas
Dan
Hrabri
Peter
Roger

A. Meeting secretary for this meeting?

    Hrabri

B. Acceptance of the Nov 28, 2006 meeting minutes
    Accepted, w/o changes.

C. Admin
    - document status - no response yet - we will bug them after the meeting
	It is likely that the Language independent document is half way 
	through the document process (up to 4 months).

We will publish Java and C binding documents on the www.drmaa.org page and 
make a comment that they are likely final documents, maintaning ability to
make
changes at a later point.
They would be sent to OGF steering committee after the main documents get
adopted, 
since they could become official informal documents and out of synch with
the 
later adopted (hopefully!) recommendation documents.


F. Open/general issues discussion

Introspection is a problem in the IDL specification, for example in
languages like C++.  
It is OK to extend the API to get native facilities help address lack of
exceptions and introspection.
Non OO and non-introspective languages section is needed to address the
above issues.  
It needs to be prominent in the document.

Particular comments:

Add sentence:  The DRM missing states could be omitted from the
implementation.  
Dan to word it and send to list. [done!]

The state diagram needs to be included in the IDL doc.  Hrabri to send the
original image to Peter.

There needs to be only one input/output/error streams.

Page 11.  Better elaborate multiple DRMS implementations in one library.

Few spelling and format errors are also communicated to be fixed.

Aborted in 8.18 need attention.

9.2 init could be not thread safe, but it does not make the implementation
non threadsafe. 
In init the developers could cache return values from libc or similar system
libraries non threadsafe calls.

The team decided to keep replicated text sections, since it is easier to do
modifications, 
but also to look into single entries in isolation.

-Hrabri