On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Ken McDonell wrote:
> Alan (and others),
>
> While I'm no longer at SGI, I remain active (and passionate) about PCP.
>
> Mark has a new PCP open source release that is pending, this will
> include the pieces necessary for the Java stuff.
I know I have been promising for a while, but yes this release will
happen real soon now :-)
We have a late-breaking change that I'd like to try and include.
Basically, it provides a callback hook for PMAPI functions such
as pmFetch() to augment the select mask when blocked in __pmGetPDU().
One thing this would allow is a PMDA to also be a client (deadlock
avoidance assumed). If anyone in open source land would be interested
in helping out with this, please let me know.
> Once that happens, I
> believe interested parties (which now includes me) could petition SGI to
> make the unreleased and unsupported PCP components (Java and DBMS chunks
> in particular) available under the GPL to anyone who's willing to take
> on the gatekeeper role.
I do not anticipate any problems with this. I think it will happen
provided we can get interested parties moving on a new sourceforge
project ...
> On another front, I'm well down the track to an open source pmchart
> replacement (kmchart), based on Qt and qwt ... send me e-mail if you'd
> be interested in participating in this development effort.
... might be a good first chunk of source for a new sourceforge project ;-)
Thanks
-- Mark
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