Re: A new Oprofile GUI

[John L. <le...@mo...>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:59:03PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote:

> > We need to work out a strategy to get this integrated. Baby steps. First
> > off, since you have opcontrol-style features, it looks like we should
> > replace our old control GUI with this code: that would imply extending
> > it to cover what the old GUI can do. Would you be interested in this?
> 
> The old gui is a UI for experts. Those experts will just go ahead and
> use the command line tools anyway. 

This might apply to some of the options but I don't think it's true for
the counter selection. Indeed, having a GUI interface to that makes it
pretty easy to use.

> > > It uses the XML output from opreport for the analysis but to make this
> > > possible we needed to extend the XML to cover callgraphs. There were
> > > also some other options we needed to add to various oprofile commands
> > > such as the ability to list the files oparchive would process instead of
> > > actually archiving them.
> > 
> > Integrating each of these would be an obvious first step.
> 
> Can you define 'integrating'? The plan is to have relatively loose
> coupling of oprofileui from oprofile internals (hence why it uses the
> XML format and the opcontrol scripts.)
> 
> I'd love to see the patches that we need integrated into your tree (and
> a 0.9.3 release made? ;-). We are of course more than happy to improve
> them.

I'd be happy to do a 0.9.3 once everything our side is in. But I'd
/also/ like the GUI to come with oprofile too. Do you have an objection
to that?

regards
john