Re: Application API

Still, I wouldn't mind seeing the discussion somehow revived....

-Chap

On 12/12/18 12:40 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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