SystemTapGui usage scenarios.

[Dave Brolley]

Anithra P Janakiraman wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I'm not very clear with the usage of stap-server/stap-server  that you 
> have described.
> This is what i understood:
> The staprun-server(stapgui-server/"lean" server) is to staprun what 
> the stap-client/stap-server is to stap.
Yes.
> 1. In a scenario where i create a script using stapgui, and i need to 
> execute it on a remote machine - i use stap-client to create the 
> module and use the staprun-server("lean" server) to execute the module.
Yes.
> 2. In a scenario where i create a script using stapgui, and i need to 
> execute on the same machine - i use stap and staprun instead of the 
> stap-client and staprun-server
Yes.
>
> The problem i have with this is that it creates a "hard-dependency", 
> in the sense , in scenario 1 if there is no stap-server the stapgui 
> cannot be used. I would like to use stapgui even if there is no 
> registered compile-server.
>
> The alternative would be to check if there is a registered 
> compile-server, if not use stap to compile on the  remote machine and 
> use the staprun-server for execution. This is how others had 
> interpreted you mail :).
Yes. The idea is that we can minimize the amount of duplicated 
functionality among our tools. However, if there is no stap-server 
available to remote compilation, then stapgui-server would then be 
forced to use stap to do the compilation.

Dave