[hobbit] Current development plans

[Michael Nemeth]

As to improvements to there server, well Do they ever end !  <smile>
As to the hobbit client, yes that is the missing piece! However it may 
be very tough to do!
First NO external  libraries such as  PCRE, RRDtool, libpng, OpenSSL, 
OpenLDAP , perl
if used should be perl 4!   Why , portability!  Ive bbclient for hpux 
9.0 ,10.x 11.0 and Solaris 2.5.1.
Its one thing to find a relatively modern box to  run the hobbit  server 
on but I must support all
sorts of client and may not be able to install external  libraries. (if 
I remember right bb 19c actually
 compiles with the c compiler used for kernel gens on hpux!)

I am thinking your aiming to do  ALL  it  in C rather  than  C plus 
shell  scripts like bb?

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>It seems version 4.0 has reached some stability - there are still a few
>odd bug reports, but nothing that looks like major problems. So I
>thought it would be worthwhile to let you know what my plans are.
>
>First, I'm currently pretty busy with other stuff so questions raised
>here are not being answered as quickly as I'd like to. Rest assured that
>they have not been forgotten, and I will look at all of the reports and
>questions - but probably not very much for the next week or so.
>
>
>I'm currently working on a 4.0.5 release which will be a performance-
>improvement release. The current Hobbit code has a flaw in the alert-
>module, that makes it use much more CPU time than it should - especially
>if you have a large number of statuses that are in an alert state, but
>which do not have any recipients defined in hobbit-alerts.cfg. This will
>be released sometime in June.
>
>But summer is upon us, and that means less development activity - so
>things will slow down as the temperature rises. So don't expect a lot
>of activity during the summer.
>
>
>When I pick up speed again, I haven't yet decided if I should go for
>the alert/acknowledge improvements that I've talked about for some 
>time, or if I should tackle the issue of a Hobbit client and get that
>into a reasonable shape for the more common platforms. I have some ideas
>for a rather different client architecture than the current one, and
>the client is also *the* missing piece of the whole Hobbit puzzle - so
>I could be tempted to get that done. I'd like some feedback on what
>you find most urgent.
>
>
>Regards,
>Henrik
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