[DRMAA-WG] Another proposal

[Peter Tröger]

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.

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> -Roger
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> ----Original Message----
> From: Daniel Templeton <Dan.Templeton at Sun.COM>
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> 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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