dtrace discuss - Oct 2007 - python dtrace probes (was [pkg-discuss] Why python?)

(dtrace-discuss is a much better place)

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:32:56PM +0200, Jesus Cea wrote:
> > Peter C. Norton ported this patch to 2.5.1 and sent me the patch
> > yesterday (attached).  I have the rest of the Solaris specific patches
> > 95% ported (some modules do not get built yet), I''ll publish
the
> > spec files and patches soon.
> 
> Will this patch and your future patch be "public"?. Can I post
them in
> my webpage?
You may do whatever the license of the code lets you do (seems like a BSD-style
license).
> Any documentation about the probes?.
Not yet, at least. They''re still experimental in the sense that they
may change
incompatibly at a future date.
> Any hope to integrate DTRACE probes in mainline python?.
Well, it''s certainly *possible*, but I have some doubts that the stuff
we get
up to in ceval.c will be considered acceptable by upstream.

regards
john