Nut upsdev - Nov 2011 - [RFC] Eaton Software Development Kit (SDK), based on NUT

Dear NUT developers,

As you all know, Eaton is NUT biggest corporate fan, supporting the project
through many
contributions.

Now, Eaton would like to provide its customers with a way to build their
own applications to interface with Eaton devices, using the NUT code-base.

To do this, in a smart and efficient way (ie limiting additions and
modifications to the bare minimum), we (Frederic and myself) have
developed an implementation using the Subversion trunk, through:

- a set of libraries, that use the various implementations supporting
Eaton devices (HID USB and SHUT ; XCP serial and USB ; SNMP and
XML/HTTP), and that are almost limited to a set of build rules,

- a documentation file, in Asciidoc format, presenting the above SDK
libraries, the legal limitations and the other ways to interface with NUT.

- a configure option (--with-eaton_sdk) and some build rules.
Obviously, this target is not built by default, and requires to call
"configure --with-eaton_sdk && make", from the top level
source directory.

The whole addition results in a 49 Kb patch (uncompressed) or 14 Kb overhead of
the distribution source.

We would now like to get your feedback and approval to push this into the trunk.
To this end, Fr?d?ric has just committed this code into
branches/Eaton_SDK. A diff against the latest trunk is also attached for
review.

We still have a few documentation completion to finish.
But in the meantime, comments and feedback are welcome as usual.

Fr?d?ric and Arnaud
--
Eaton Opensource Team - http://opensource.eaton.com


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