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Subject: RE: SNMP value retrieval
From: jhml@gmx.net

>Jonny, it your personal email address is bouncing.
>That you know (maybe even the mailinglist email bounces for you).
Sorry for that. It seems like 1409.org is permanently gone. I've now swit=
ched=20
to an account I have to pay for just to be on the safe side in the future=
=2E I=20
hope this will also prevent most of the spam I received as they use=20
SpamAssassin...

>> - SNMP_VALUEMETHOD_LIBRARY:
>> - SNMP_VALUEMETHOD_PLAIN:
>> - SNMP_VALUEMETHOD_OBJECT:
>Do these names to be so long?? I was thinking we cane drop the
>'VALUEMETHOD' or 'METHOD' part. Would that be OK and which do
>you prefer??
To be honest I was never happy with these names. "valuemethod" sounds clu=
msy=20
to me, but English is not my mother tongue. I'm also not happy with=20
"snmp_setvaluemethod" as a function name. Maybe we could call the functio=
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"snmp_setvalueretrieval" and the constants SNMP_VALUE_*? I'm really not=20
insisting on names, I only want the functionality, so every comment is=20
welcome!

>>  the value type returned by the SNMP
>>   agent (the ASN_* constants from the net-snmp library are also
>>   defined as PHP constants)
>I believe the ASN_ prefix should be SNMP_ and changed as such.
>That they are internally ASN_ does not matter.
Ok, I'll change these constants to SNMP_*.

>ANother thing I would like to ask is whether the group wants to support
>also all kinds of types of SNMP that are not standardized and somehow
>added to NET-SNMP as an expiriment.
>I believe it is better to drop those, what do you think??
I don't need them. If nobody gives me some reason to keep them, I'll drop=
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them.

I'll wait for another week for some comments as I have a strange feeling =
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absolutely nobody else has yet commented on the patch. If no further comm=
ents=20
are posted, I'll create a new patch. Would be a dream if gets into 4.3.3.=
=2E.

Cheers, Jonny