[xymon] New perl library and client channel script added to xymonton

[David Baldwin]

Buchan,
> On Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:19:07 David Baldwin wrote:
>   
>> I've just spent a bit of time tidying up some code I've been meaning to
>> do for ages and put on xymonton.
>>     
>
>   
>> http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:xymonext.pm
>>     
>
> Note that, since no one developing perl modules such as this discusses them 
> first on the development mailing list, there are now at *least* three modules 
> doing very similar things in different ways, with different name spaces.
>
> I would very much like to see a single official API for each scripting language, 
> with a good feature set, rather than 3 different ones with different but 
> overlapping feature sets.
>
>   
Totally fair call. In fact I came up with the different namespace
exactly because Xymon.pm already existed in xymonton, but I didn't take
the time to even look at it. I could just have cut'n'pasted the
functions required into the script, but that wouldn't have achieved a
great deal either.

> If no one else discusses these in advance, I will just pick one and commit it 
> to svn and wait for patches ... which is obviously not the best approach, but 
> no one else seems to worry about that.
>
>   
OK, let's do an inventory of these libraries, work out the overlap and
separate areas of functionality and come up with a namespace. Heck, it
can even go into CPAN.

It will surely make it easier to write perl-based tests in the longer
term. Sure, if you only write one or two standalone tests you can copy
and paste code, but once you have a bunch spread across several systems
it becomes a pain not using common libraries.

Please reply to me on or off list as appropriate. Send me URLs or file
attachments, either will do. I'll see what I can come up with.

Thanks, David.

-- 
David Baldwin - IT Unit
Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617


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