Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of PythonAppDev

Timestamp:

Oct 9, 2007, 4:02:37 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

kadam

Comment:

added client run script and a few questions to be answered

PythonAppDev

@@ -82 +82 @@
 Its work units have two input files: a Python program, and a data file.
 Its application runs a Python interpreter on the program file.
+The executable of the application is a shell script for linux/mac and a batch file for windows, which executes the python interpreter with the client code:
+{{{
+python app_client.py
+}}}
+* Question: what if python interpreter is not present on a windows box? Is the license of python allows distribution of the interpreter?
 
 PyBOINC uses the following daemons:
- * validator: uses the sample bitwise validator
+ * validator: uses the sample bitwise validator (need to check what python produces with floating-point operations on the different platforms)
  * assimilator: uses a variant of sample_assimilator.  Given a completed result, it looks up the batch record, then copies the output file to BATCH_DIR/new/
 
@@ -92 +97 @@
 
 pyboinc_call(slave_filename, input)
-    create a uniquely-named file x in the download hierarchy
+    create a uniquely-named file x in the download hierarchy, file name should contain batch ID
     Pickler(x).dump(input)
     create_work()