I have a need for an automation system that will process a queue of things including files in a directory and tasks that need to run regularly. I have already started on a framework that is based on scripts that run from cron but am not really satisfied with it since it feels like it is just strung together bit and piece.

I am posting here for several reasons:

  • I am intending to write my task in PERL
  • I know there are lots of opinions and experience here

    I have found a couple of modules/frameworks which I do not fully understand but which look like appropriate framework:

  • POE
  • Minion (Mojolicious)

    Any guidance here would be appreciated as well as the merits of cron v. perl task that just runs, sleeps, processes, sleeps, processes, etc.

    Thanks in advance.

    In reply to Long-running automation tasks by bfdi533

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