App-accessible scheduling?

[Christopher Glass]

Hi all,

I'd like to try and build a snappy package for my go-to "toy"
application, which is a simple http server and a set of crontabs (it
mirrors the ubuntu archives).

What is the vision regarding scheduling? I am quite sure my toy app
won't be the last to need some kind of periodic task taken care of,
and it seems to me that reimplementing a minimal cron-like mechanism
for every service is a little wasteful.

I tried looking at the existing documentation but couldn't find
anything at this point.

Something like adding a "run-schedule" line to the services metadata
entry on the schedule, that snappy can insert in the system's crontab,
calling the "start" program on the defined schedule for example?

Thanks a lot for your work, and hopefully see you soon with a first app :)

- Chris