[collectd] ...window$?

[Florian Forster]

Hi Sergiusz,

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:33:47PM +0100, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
> I still have several window$ boxes, it will be very useful to collect
> basic information of them in my central collect daemon, do you plan to
> release windows version as well?

I don't have any MS Windows experice (well, none I'd take credit for
anyway) and I've never compiled a single program under MS Windows. From
what I've heard MS Windows provides a POSIX-subsystem, so likely
compiling collectd under MS Windows is not too much of a challenge if
you know what you're doing.

However, getting collectd to compile is only the first step. I guess
that none of the plugins will be able to read any values, with the
possible exception of plugins that use external libraries to do that,
e. g. `apache' or `dns'.

So, I don't plan on supporting MS Windows myself. If someone wants to
maintain a MS Windows port I'll be happy to help where I can and I will,
of course, accept patches, Makefiles, project-files, etc. As far as I
know noone has put any work into this yet..

Regards,
-octo
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Florian octo Forster
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