Paul has been in touch to say that the crontab format was not his invention,
and that his program was based off of V7's cron's functionality, not later
AT&T and Berkeley ones.
Thus the mcron manual is edited extensively to emphasise more the POSIX
standard crontab format, and to point out a more accurate history of cron
developments.
* doc/mcron.texi: small changes throughout the document.
The second example under the manual heading Simple Examples does not work.
The call to next-minute-from errs because the second argument must be a
list. It can’t be the raw number 15.
Thanks to Colton Lewis.
* doc/mcron.texi: edited text.
Reifying the notion of a schedule helps reasoning about the code.
Passing a schedule as an argument to related procedures allows writing
simpler unit tests.
* src/mcron/base.scm(<schedule>): New record data type.
(make-schedule, schedule-user, set-schedule-user!)
(schedule-system, set-schedule-system!)
(schedule-current, set-schedule-current!): New procedures.
(system-job-list, user-job-list, configuration-source): Replace those
global variables with ...
(%global-schedule): ... this global <schedule> instance.
* src/mcron/base.scm (use-system-job-list, use-user-job-list)
(remove-user-jobs, clear-system-jobs, add-job, find-next-jobs)
(display-schedule, run-job-loop): Add '#:SCHEDULE' keyword argument.
* doc/mcron.texi (The base module): Update documentation.
This procedure is a more generic and less coupled version of
'get-schedule' which has been kept for backward compatibility and
deprecated.
* src/mcron/base.scm (display-schedule): New procedure.
(get-schedule): Move to ...
* src/mcron/core.scm: ... here.
* src/mcron/scripts/cron.scm (main): Use 'display-schedule'.
* src/mcron/scripts/mcron.scm (main): Likewise.
* doc/mcron.texi (The base module): Document it.
The 'configure' script deletes the 'core.*' files. Having a file named
'base.scm' instead of 'core.scm' simplifies the build process without
changing the semantics.
* src/mcron/mcron-core.scm: Rename to ...
* src/mcron/base.scm: ... this.
All module users changed.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add 'src/mcron/base.scm'.
(CP): Remove variable.
(src/mcron/core.scm): Remove target.
(GEN_MODULES): Remove 'src/mcron/core.scm'.
(dist_mcronmodule_DATA): Remove 'src/mcron/mcron-core.scm'
* doc/mcron.texi: Adapt to name change.
* .gitignore: Update.
