[systemd-devel] [PATCH] TODO: timer unit generation

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:15:22AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:04:24AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > +  - unit generator for compatibility with crontab and cron.d
> >>
> >> We kind of decided to port the 40-60 things that use the .d/ dirs to
> >> native units right away, and leave cron as it is, and not parse its
> >> config files from systemd.
> >>
> >> If people want cron, they should install it; new or common stuff
> >> should just not pull it in anymore. The default install should not
> >> require it.
> >
> > I figured this fell in the general area of "wouldn't do it ourselves,
> > but would probably take a clean patch", which seemed like a good use of
> > TODO.
> 
> Not really, we cannot or don't want to cover all of cron, so cron
> stays around anyway for the grey beards, or existing things out there.

As far as I can tell, timer units already support almost everything
crontabs do; the problem then just becomes a format parser and unit
generator.

- Josh Triplett