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*-An important Item that needs to be finished
B-Initial of person who needs to fix this (Binki)
M-LordofWar needs to fix this
E-normaldotcom needs to fix this
x-finished task
=-Long-term goal
Build
Master
*-Code dummy data/processes to test the current queueing system / watchdog / etc.
*-Add calls to remotio
-Write more meat into the pseudo-code main() to pull everything together
-Write a stub for getting info from the tarball/validifying the tarball. Read distren-job.xml, a file in the tarball, to find out 1. which rendering system to use (that system, e.g. blender/povray, can read more specifics, such as name of file to pass to blender and frames. Options common between different systems will be handled in common as best as possible)
-Write a stub for publishing file and constructing job description so that the job can be shared
*-Other XML-writing/reading such as current stats / jobs / data / etc, xml writing for job creation, ...
*-charsets: the program should operate in UTF-8. This is partially required by libxml2's (and XML's) usage of UTF-8. We want the program's internal charset to be UTF-8 and figure out if we need w_char/whatever to fulfill UTF-8. I don't believe we do... mabye we just need a declaration that al data stored must be in UTF-8 format.
-rename some struct members and variables to be more program-agnostic and more sensible (e.g., no blender-specific stuff)
Slave
-Fix current bugs
*-Add calls to remoteio, once it works or even before it works
*-Other XML-writing/reading
+Update exec_blender() to use some struct info, maybe. The struct is being passed to it.
=-Make code more flexible for different types of jobs and operating systems (such as paths, libs, etc)
-Add code to allow pausing/resuming of the slave (including a running blender process)
-Add a threads variable for software that doesn't support threads (blender takes care of this by itself)
*-Fix line 194 (call to myjob struct that fails miserably)
B-Add tmpdir variable (just like the datadir variable) that is compile-time or whatever
*-Add code to delete old jobfiles (maybe based on timestamp, etc... make sure they're uploaded first)
-Upload while rendering? Would be nice.
Options
-Rewrite some stuff, try to make it simpler
x-Move server and client confuse code into their individual files, rather than in the common file. -- note: there wasn't any client code in options.c. There was the ``server'' section. That section is passed multiple times and provides information to remoteio on how to connect to servers
-Review all confuse interfacing
-Push patch for relative includes in confuse to the confuse developers
B-Expand execio() to support stderr