Re: [pcp] PMAPI observations re. converting an app to pcp

[Martins Innus <minnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank,

> - The API is really wordy for basic tasks such as extracting and
>    scaling some metrics.  It takes several setup steps, several arrays
>    of data, several error-prone array/pointer arithmetic, with
>    error-handling at each step.  It adds up to way too much code - it's
>    >100 lines, and not done yet.  We need a higher level API that
>    combines the lookup/indom/fetch/extract/scale steps (doing internal
>    caching/lookups as necessary), with the goal of making it easy to
>    interface with an enclosing application.
From my perspective, this would be very useful.  It would be great to 
have something higher level that was easy to use for quick one-off 
applications.
Thanks

Martins