[Nut-upsdev] Opening the 2.4 commit fest (configuration files)

[Charles Lepple]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/15 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> 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.

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- Charles Lepple