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fetchgroups vs pmclient in PCP_PG book

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Subject: fetchgroups vs pmclient in PCP_PG book
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:29:13 -0500
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Hi -

I added a draft of fetchgroup C+python documentation to the
programming guide, as mgoodwin requested.  Usual repo & branch.

I'd like some Official Advice as to what to do about pmclient.  The
code has been converted to fetchgroups, so is much younger and better
looking, but the programming book waxes eloquently about the older
one.  What would you recommend?

(a) drop mention of pmclient in the manual?

(b) restore the previous version of pmclient in the source tree?

(c) replace the verbiage in the manual about pmnsmap etc.  with the
    simpler pmfg stuff?  (This seems counter to the point of the
    pmclient writeup, which sets out to make a "manageable solution"
    out of old PMAPI.  If pmfg already does that, then pmclient's
    relatively simple use of pmfg does not need belabouring.)


- FChE

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