[DRMAA-WG] Another proposal

[Daniel Templeton]

I agree that this proposal has no real meat to it.  It's just playing 
around with names.  I do think, however, that it is valuable 
nonetheless.  The idea of v2 is to make DRMAA more accessible and useful 
to a wider audience.  If now isn't the time to clean up ugly parts of 
the API, when is?  We renamed the drmaa_job_ps() operation in the IDL 
spec for exactly the same reason.  I fail to see how the cost is more 
than some time in one meeting and a few copies and pastes in the spec, 
and that's a price I'm willing to pay to have a respectable API that 
looks like it was designed by professionals.

Daniel

Peter Tröger wrote:
> Am 23.01.2009 um 17:15 schrieb Roger Brobst:
>
>   
>> My preference would be to not change drmaa_control(),
>> and not worry too much about consistency with drmaa_control()
>> when developing subsequent APIs.
>>     
>
> Same for me. We somehow agreed to focus only on real improvements in  
> DRMAA2, since everything else unnecessarily slows us down and creates  
> a new API instead of an update.
>
> /Peter.
>
>   
>> -Roger
>>
>>
>> ----Original Message----
>> From: Daniel Templeton <Dan.Templeton at Sun.COM>
>> Sender: drmaa-wg-bounces at ogf.org
>> To: DRMAA Working Group <drmaa-wg at gridforum.org>
>> Subject: [DRMAA-WG] Another proposal
>> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:38:24 -0800
>>
>> A customer just pointed out the awkwardness of the drmaa_control()
>> operation.  As a rule, I don't like operations whose behavior is
>> controlled by a flag.  It's generally easier to learn and easier to  
>> read
>> is the name of the operation is descriptive of exactly what it does.
>> What would people think of replacing the drmaa_control() operation  
>> with
>> drmaa_suspend_job(), drmaa_release_job(), drmaa_hold_job(),
>> drmaa_resume_job(), and drmaa_terminate_job() operations.  I don't see
>> the downside, myself.
>>
>> Daniel
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