Re: [ANNOUNCE] PCP & PCPMon Pkgs - Fedora 4 - MacOS X

[Alan Hoyt <ahyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

Could you please clarify – are you forking the code base or were you 
going to provide a diff patch to Mark so he can fold these changes into 
the SGI code line?
Alan

Michael Werner wrote:

> This message is to announce the availability of prepackaged binaries
> of PCP 2.5.0 and PCPMon 1.3.4 for Fedora 4 and MacOS 10.3 and 10.4
>
> The packages, sources, docs, etc. are available from:
> http://reliable.sourceforge.net
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/reliable
>
> Packages for additional platforms are in the works. Your early
> questions, comments, and feedback will be most helpful and welcome.
>
> This PCP 2.5.0 distribution contains modifications not found in SGI's
> original PCP 2.5.0 sources. Source code and details of the individual
> changes can be obtained by visiting:
> http://reliable.sourceforge.net/pcp/build_info/pcp_2_5_0.html
>
> Generally speaking, the differences are:
> * Fixed MacOS X compilation errors
> * Fixed MacOS X PMDA network routines to also work on MacOS 10.4
> * Added files and scripts for packaging and installation on MacOS X
> * Added and lightly refurbished Michal Kara's MySQL PMDA, previously
> moribund, so PCP can now provide a LAMP monitoring solution.
>
> This is the first release of PCPMon since version 1.3.3 was released
> by Michal Kara in 2001. Source Code and details of the individual
> changes can be obtained by visiting:
> http://reliable.sourceforge.net/pcp/build_info/pcpmon_1_3_4.html
>
> Generally speaking the differences are:
> * Ported to MacOS X
> * Added help menu items linking to additional web documentation
> * Fixed autotools build process
> * Fixed several runtime hangs and crashes
> * Added several loadable config files for easily displaying
> common metric graphs
>
> Cheers,
>
> - mtw