Preparing Mozart 1.4.0

[Scott Parish]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:27:44PM -0400, Bob Calco wrote:

> > The Fault module has also been redesigned and rewritten completely.
> > Distribution-related exceptions and fault handlers have been discarded,
> > because of their complexity and lack of modularity.  Fault watchers
> > have
> > been reduced to a simpler primitive: a stream of fault state for each
> > entity.  The programmer can also provoke entity failure, which can be
> > helpful for combining fault-tolerant abstractions.
> 
> This is interesting. How does it compare to Erlang's OTP mechanisms for
> fault-tolerance? Seems at once lower level and more expressive.

I hope this means oz gets something like erlang's process linking
(which allows building up abstractions like erlang's supervisors).
At the moment this makes the system largely unusable for any high
availability type application.

sRp