Re: [pcp] PCP question ... leading to pmimport discussion

[Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

nathans@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   
> > If there was consensus on exactly how this meta data was to be
> > encoded in the file, then it would be possible to write a generic
> > "csv" plugin for pmimport.
> >     
> The plan I had in mind for the pmimport tool and API was to make 
> a Perl wrapper around a plugin API so that script plugins could
> be written.  
Or even better, a Perl API to generate a PCP archive programmatically, 
so the user can write their own main loop.  I would have used such a 
thing dozens of times by now if it existed.  And while you're at it, 
perhaps also a fully supported and documented C libpcp API for writing 
an archive from a C program, instead of having to do horrible things 
with __pmLogCreate() et al.
--
Greg.