Hi @aquette ! Let’s start =)

First of all, I would like to say that I am not going to do something without acceptance of NUT Team (it would be great to coordinate high-level tasks at least). Please, feel free to say "no", if something is out of your vision/roadmap.

I sent a message with my ideas to nut-upsdev list and discussed some points with @clepple already. You may find there more details why I think so. So, here are just short descriptions.

Produce cross-compiled source code to build *nix, x86 and x64 versions from single sources. Linux environment must be used only.
Make a software abstraction layer (SAL) to hide all functions’ calls like "system", "syslog", etc. Windows version will have special implementation of them, *nix will translate the calls to standard ones. For example, no one will call "system" directly, but "nut_system" only. "nut_system" will call standard "system" function for *nix and "CreateProcess" for Windows. As result of such abstraction, we will have common program flow in source code without platform specific conditions like #ifdef.
Improve logging for Windows version and use file-based log instead of Windows Event Log. Moreover, standard syslog should be supported in Windows version too (to have equal behavior with *nix version).
Eliminate NUT service in Windows version (it provides "syslogd" and "initd" functions). Implement every daemons (upsmon, upsd) as Windows services. Here is open question what to do with drivers; it looks quite redundant to port every driver as service. I think to create additional Windows service (or extend upsdrvctrl program) to control them (start, stop, etc.), so, they can stay as console applications.

Sure, I see many minor tasks, but let us discuss them later.

The one thing I worry is branch. I was going to fork Windows-v2.6.5-7 branch and completing Windows port there. @clepple thinks that Windows-v2.6.5-7 should be rebased before. Unfortunately, I am not GIT expert and I am afraid that there will be many conflicts during rebase. Moreover, I think that my commits will be quite massive. What is the best way to synchronize master branch and my repository? I will be glad to get any hint.

I have looked into sources of ntUPSd project. They are complete different from NUT one, but maybe I will find something useful there.

Thanks!

Windows port #5

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