Re: [PATCH] Sending catenated messages in incorrect order

Hi Oded,

yes, you are right, prioqueue does reorder of equal items. I will try to 
fix it...

Thanks,
Alex

Oded Arbel wrote:
> On Friday, 18 בNovember 2005 12:47, Andreas Fink wrote:
> 
>>trying to play with the priority is NOT the solution.
> 
> 
> Never said it was.
> 
> 
>>Kannel's priority are for defining priorities of message paths, not
>>priority of individual message parts.
>>So changing priorities could have a total other effect than what you
>>expect.
> 
> 
> Yes - but I'm not suggesting to set different priorities on different 
> parts of the same message, I'm just saying that the current 
> implementation of the priority queues re-orders messages of the same 
> priority (and time) arbitrarily, for no good reason, and thus may break 
> things which previously worked - again for no good reason. It almost 
> seems like Kannel developers are sating to themselves - "lets try to be 
> as incompatible as possible to current deployed products while still 
> maintaining spec compliancy). I think its important - when adding 
> features - to try to maintain all other behavioral characteristics.
> 
> IMO, the features required from a priority queue (in order of 
> importance) are:
> 1. correctly order items based on criteria properties (priority and 
> time).
> 3. maintain items of equal criteria properties, in the order in which 
> they were introduced into the queue.
> 2. be fast
> 
> The current implementation offers only features 1 and 3, and as such - 
> incomplete.
>