python really needed here ?

[gedw99]

looking at the pything look it looks easy to replace this with golang.

what exactly is it doing ? It looks like a job runner to me..

Taskfile or something similar would perhaps be a good one to replace the python, but i am not fully sure if the grunt system is designed to be a CLI or a Persistent job runner. If anyone can tell me it would be good.

[rcoreilly]

yep it is a way of running compute jobs on a cluster.

in retrospect go would have been better. It started out as a fairly small "script" level thing but as usual, got bigger and made me regret the python choice ever more..

anyway, this is isn't quite the right way to do things -- it is too slow and there are too many issues with tracking git updates as a way of delivering commands.

a better design would use an ssh pipe between a go server and client, and just use git for the server to record the history as more of an offline history rather than as the sole transport protocol.