On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@linaro.org> wrote:

Yeah, when you mentioned this now I started thinking. Do we really need a daemon-like component for the dispatcher in general or just in the farm environment. Can we assume that having the implementation the "daemon" can be replaced with a command line tool that simply interacts with one device - strictly for development purpose? I'm thinking about stuff like volatile device state and device monitoring requirements.
The only reason I see for having a daemon at all is to pick up jobs from the queue.  In reality, I think even having the queue is overkill for the moment.  The actual job dispatcher portion, that is, the piece that takes a job control file, parses it, initiates deployment to a device, ... can absolutely be a command line piece.  We're going to have to have one of these processes running for each job running anyway, and it greatly simplifies things not only for us, but for anyone who wants to run a smaller-scale version of this.

-Paul Larson