Support for multiple Shotgun instances about shotgunevents HOT 6 OPEN

I'll lower the priority on this one as you could run multiple instances of the daemon to provide service to multiple shotgun instances.

This would have the added benefit of taking down one daemon without compromising the other and keeping log files independent.

You could also be running two different versions of the daemon as long as the plugin API hasn't changed.

If this setup is enough, maybe we could even close this ticket?

Explanation

• Put daemon code files in two directories (/apps/daemonA and /apps/daemonB for example) and modify the two conf files to point to two different Shotgun servers, plugin locations, log locations, id files, etc...
• Symlink /etc/init.d/daemonA to /apps/daemonA/shotgunEventDaemon.py
• Symlink /etc/init.d/daemonB to /apps/daemonB/shotgunEventDaemon.py
• Setup the two independent services with chkconfig
• Create a single plugin location where you'll put your plugins (/apps/shotgunPlugins)
• Symlink the appropriate plugins for each daemon instance:
  • /apps/daemonA/plugins/exampleA.py -> /apps/shotgunPlugins/exampleA.py
  • /apps/daemonA/plugins/exampleB.py -> /apps/shotgunPlugins/exampleB.py
  • /apps/daemonB/plugins/exampleB.py -> /apps/shotgunPlugins/exampleB.py
  • /apps/daemonB/plugins/exampleC.py -> /apps/shotgunPlugins/exampleC.py

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Possible caveat: Would the auto reload functionality still work if plugins are loaded via symlink? This would have to be tested.

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That's true. If the symlinks work for the auto reload, that would probably be sufficient, but my hunch says they probably won't. If they don't, then it requires duplicate plugins running on two different daemons and that's not ideal obviously.

Not super high priority, but would be good to have supported in some fashion eventually

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If the reload/symlink test fails. Maybe we can just run the paths through os.path.realpath() and run reload tests on the result.

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If a plugin is a symlink to a file, auto reload still works. Just tested it.

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This solution should be added to documentation. And then issue closed.

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