[Catalyst] Catalyst::Engine needs a stop method

[Matt S Trout]

hkclark at gmail.com wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Jon <jon+catalyst at youramigo.com> wrote:
>> I need to launch a long-running (minutes up to hours) background program
>> from Catalyst.  I have it working almost well enough - I do the usual
>> double-fork, closing standard file descriptors, and had to take some
>> particular care to use POSIX::_exit and put an eval{} around the daemon
>> code so that if it dies it doesn't return to the Catalyst main loop -
>> and it runs, exits cleanly and doesn't interfere with other Catalyst
>> operations.
>>
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> I know this probably isn't the answer you are looking for, but when I
> discussed a similar requirement on IRC, they convinced me to write a
> POE job server.   I was surprised how easy it was and how well it
> works.  I'm using POE::Component::Server::XMLRPC.

And Catalyst::Engine::JobQueue::POE is being developed in trunk atm.

However, I'd love to see a proper RFC for an Engine stop method on 
catalyst-dev so we can have a proper discussion about it.

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