> CHOICE OF ON-DISK ENCODING: > > * estimate user base, choose most common architecture for native format > - probably i386? > > > [snip]
> SUPPORT FOR OLD VERSIONS: > > * Create a new stat_head.version = "0005" for the new portable RRD > > There are a few thoughts that come to mind (not all directly related to my immediate business requirements): - maybe the new format should allow a small set of alternate encodings, with a discriminator field - rrdtool will then decide what translation is required on a file-by-file basis - users could then choose default to the format they prefer, but have seamless use of the other formats - modularisation (even if statically linked) is a good thing - let's try and separate and modularise the translation and storage code so that it can be adapted at run time as required - I've also had a play with JRobin a while back, it is neat for a J2EE developer - we should look to interoperate with Java at some level - it could be interesting to combine rrdtool data with tools like JasperReports (for report presentation) and iReport (for interactive report design) Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ rrd-developers mailing list rrd-developers@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers