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David Craven <david@craven.ch> skribis:

>> Not sure I understand the problem.  =E2=80=98mcron-jobs=E2=80=99 wouldn=
=E2=80=99t collide with
>> anything else AFAICS, and it would be clearer than just =E2=80=98jobs=E2=
=80=99 no?
>
> What I mean is that mcron-jobs assumes that the mcron-service is used.
> Calling it something general like jobs or cron-jobs wouldn't require
> renaming, if someone wants to use a different cron implementation. For
> example in an embedded system someone might prefer to use the
> busybox/toybox cron implementation. I'm not sure what other job time
> scheduling solutions exist. But a job is something that needs to run
> at specific times and has a bounded run time. I don't know how cron
> specific this feature is, or if the name of the job scheduler it's
> relevant as part of an operating-system declaration.

Oh, I see.  The mcron jobs that we define in GuixSD directly use mcron=E2=
=80=99s
Scheme API; IOW, we don=E2=80=99t provide any abstraction over what mcron
provides.  Thus it would be really hard to retarget such job specs to
tools other than mcron.

For this reason I think we should keep the =E2=80=98mcron-=E2=80=99 prefix =
here.

Does it make sense?

(The situation is comparable to that of Shepherd services.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.