Not yet. They may one day import the code from WordPress or eventually BackPress may solve the issue.
What is it you wanted to do with cron? There’s probably a way to do it from another system with the ability to schedule tasks, especially if it’s URL based.
I was thinking of making a plugin that would allow temporary blocking/bozo-ing/inactive-ing on a timer.
Need more info.
If it’s a plugin, and there’s a management page, maybe you could just hit the URL from another system that does have the ability to schedule tasks?
I never looked into how WordPress does pseudo cron…
If I skipped the cron thing entirely, it would only mean one extra database query per pageload, anyway, so I guess I don’t need to worry about it.
There used to be a plugin that was hooked to someone marking an item as a favorite: that was the only time it would run. If you wanted to run it manually, you just marked something a favorite. That was a random sort of way to run it occasionally.
I think this was the plugin:
http://boakes.org/download/bbpress_sitemap.txt
