[monit-dev] An apology and Monit status update

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Hi all

I apologize for the large amount of email that was sent to the list from 
subversion. This wont happen again - I have set repository notification to go 
to an internal email address instead. 

The reason for this frenzy of emails is that I'm in the process of refactoring 
Monit. The first result of this work should be a new 'check program' statement 
which will allow Monit to check the status of an external program. It will work 
as a simple plugin system for Monit. This new function will be released with a 
new version of Monit in 1-2 weeks.

The actual work of rewriting Monit will take longer and the approach we will 
use is to introduce a new libmonit which gradually will replace existing Monit 
code with high quality and modern (C99) code from M/Monit. 

The long-term goal is to reduce the source code of Monit to basically a parser 
for the configuration language and a validator which will run the different 
checks. The rest of the code will be moved into libmonit.

Best regards
--
Jan-Henrik Haukeland
http://tildeslash.com/