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

[Jerald Sheets]

I'm in a job-change right now, but once things settle down, I'd love to be a part of this...  I'm doing a Xymon presentation at our Perl Mongers in December here, and I'd love to have a complete/mature .pm to be able to illustrate to them as well.  


--jms


On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:06 AM, David Baldwin wrote:

> 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.
> 
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