On March 20, 2008 04:27:17 pm Dave Anderson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Nice. Now that's a serious extension! > > I'd like to add a reference to the general Python/Crash API as a third main > section to the http://people.redhat.com/anderson/extensions.html page, with > a subsection within it that references xportshow as an example. (And then > in the future any new commands made the same way could be added.) > > If you want to tinker with that html page and send me a copy off-line, > please do so -- I just don't want to butcher the explanation. And > if you don't want to do any html hacking (it's a pretty simple page), > just tell me how you'd like to describe/format it, and I'll take it > from there. > > Again, really nice work -- thanks, > Dave Hi Dave, I'll edit that page next week. API documentation needs to be updated - as I am the only developer at this moment (my HP colleagues are just using the built extension) I was neglecting developer's documentation. Hopefully if extension becomes popular, HP will let me spend more time working on it. I have many ideas - e.g. designing a special high-level easy-to-use language describing how to obtain different variables from different kernels. This should make it easy to add support for new kernels - but this is in early stages yet (due to lack of time). If someone interested _both_ in Linux dump-analysis and Python starts helping me, the progress would be much faster. BTW, it is possible to use the extension file to add new Python programs without rebuilding it - you can either put new scripts in directories defined by an environment variable PYKDUMPPATH, or use 'zip' to add them to the extension file directly. Regards, Alex -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Alexandre Sidorenko email: alexs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Global Solutions Engineering: Unix Networking Hewlett-Packard (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility