[development] Queue as a supplement to cron

[Gabor Hojtsy]

Neil Drumm wrote:
> I sometimes find myself building a queue in a hook_cron()
> implementation. I decided to make a separate module for this,
> job_queue, http://drupal.org/project/job_queue. It provides an API
> which takes a function name and array of arguments for later execution
> on cron. The only UI is a list of queued function calls.
> 
> Is this functionality something that people would like to see in core?
> Search module has a 'queue' of unindexed content, would it benefit
> from having an abstracted queue?

Not only cron. A HTTP queue would be better in general :) As we were 
talking about recently. Update.php has a frontend facing job queue, 
which is (apart from storing the queue in the session not the database) 
a very much similar situation. Other frontend facing queues would 
greatly benefit from this too. Like a long lasting data import in an 
install profile (we are talking about PO file imports for example).

Gabor