Re: Introducing pmrep - Performance Metrics Reporter

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Marko -

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 06:08:17PM +0200, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> [...]
> > The fetchgroup widgets will get a reasonably high-level pmapi.py
> > representation.
> 
> to me it almost looks like we already have enough such API user
> candidates without pmrep (and actually it might be better to start with
> them rather than with pmrep).

Quite possibly.


> [...] However, pmrep's archive and stdout outputs have some
> peculiarities which might then provide a use case on how to use the
> generic APIs with custom properties in play (like field width,
> decimal count, header printing, etc, all irrelevant for pcp2graphite
> and such).

The fetchgroup widget would be only for -fetching-.  So it is neutral
as to formatting or disposal of the resulting values.


- FChE