[jsdl-wg] Future plans for JSDL

[Michel Drescher]

+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.
>