Re: Application API

Ah, OK, I didn't realize there was discussion elsewhere than the PR.  I
retract some of the force in my previous comments.

Dustin


Op wo 12 dec. 2018 om 10:25 schreef Chapman Flack <[email protected]>:

> At first, JLM had some review comments, most of which got addressed
> in the later commits to that PR (those between August 2017 and
> January 2018).
>
> The last open item was to come up with a reasonable default
> implementation of local state for scripts (it's OO, so it doesn't
> have to be perfect for everything, any script can override with a
> custom implementation, but there should be some built-in implementation
> good enough for most purposes). Scripts can need local state
> because the existing mechanism for scripts to set properties can only
> pass the properties to later-invoked /applications/, not to other
> scripts (or to the same script, say, in a later post-* invocation).
>
> My preferred design idea for that open item was in
>
>   https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers&m=151120396810173&w=2
>
> but I didn't get any community feedback; the message thread kind of
> trails off at that point.
>
> -Chap
>
>
> On 12/12/18 9:48 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> > Hm, any idea why that hasn't been merged?  That's an awful long time with
> > no response.  It seems like there's a lot more interest from non-Zmanda
> > folks than Zmanda folks for the last year+.
> >
> > Perhaps it's time to consider a fork?
> >
> > Can someone from Zmanda comment on why this PR has been left open, and
> why
> > so few commits in the last year?
> >
> > Dustin
> >
> > Op wo 12 dec. 2018 om 09:09 schreef Chapman Flack <[email protected]
> >:
> >
> >> On 12/12/18 00:15, Olivier wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Is there information available about writting an Amanda plugin, beside
> >>> the wiki page at
> >>> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API/Operations
> >>>
> >>> I have found that the information in the wiki are incomplete:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> The not-yet-applied pull request #78 addresses a lot of the incomplete
> >> points in the Application/Script API documentation (and also fleshes out
> >> the API itself so there is less implementation that every application
> >> developer has to duplicate).
> >>
> >>   https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/78
> >>
> >> The notes on that pull request should be helpful for more insight into
> >> the issues involved.
> >>
> >> If you are starting out to develop an application without the PR#78
> code,
> >> you may find very helpful the thread of -hackers messages that were
> >> necessary while developing it, to pin down the precise meaning of a lot
> >> of points in the current documentation. That thread is here:
> >>
> >>   http://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers&s=coding+an+Application+in+perl
> >>
> >> You'll probably find in there the specific issue you ran into here, as
> >> well as others that you might not have run into yet.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> -Chap
> >>
> >
>
>