On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/15 Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> fellows, >>> >>> You can now commit to the trunk everything that is scheduled for 2.4 >>> >>> For my part, the november month will be mostly dedicated to the following: >>> - commit the USB "improved maintenance" code. I'm about to finish that >>> one, which allows to extract USB info and generate the various USB >>> related files (hotplug, udev and hal). so the end of that bothering >>> era ^_^ >>> - complete & merge the upsdrv-info-struct branch >>> - complete & merge the make-package branch >>> - commit the PDUs support >>> - some more update related to Eaton >> >> One thing that was on the plate (but we haven't discussed much) is the >> new configuration file format. >> >> I prefer that we keep the new configuration file code out of 2.4, >> since there are a lot of other changes on the TODO list, and we >> haven't really discussed it much. Also, there is the problem of >> transitioning people to the new format - since a lot of the NUT users >> get NUT from a Linux distribution, it will get confusing unless we >> have some way to support both file formats. > > if you refer to Jonathan's work (newconf branch), then sure, it's out > of 2.4 scope (though it was initially in!)
Yes, that's what I was referring to. > now, I'd like to make the bare minimum improvements there by providing: > - a nut.conf file, whose sole purpose for now will be to store the > configuration type (none, standalone (inc. redundancy), network server > / client) > this will help standardizing nut init and config over the distro, and > the removal of /etc/default/nut, /etc/sysconfig/ups, ... > - provide a basic upsconfig(.sh or .py?) with interactive and batch mode... > > that should fit in 2.4 It's ambitious, but if we are just wrapping the existing files, that should be reasonable. -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
