[ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Andrew Schulman]

I'd like to package and maintain nosleep for Cygwin.  nosleep runs a
command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until
the command finishes executing.  By default nosleep just prevents the
computer from going to sleep during idle periods.  More aggressive options
are available to inhibit sleep or hibernation, but these come with warnings
and an onerous Disclaimer.

nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available in
any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.

Note that nosleep requires libargp, which is currently also in ITP for
Cygwin [1].

License:    GPLv3
Home page:  https://launchpad.net/nosleep
Author:     Andrew E. Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>

<setup.hint>
sdesc: "Run a command while inhibiting computer sleep or hibernation"
ldesc: "nosleep runs a command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping
or hibernating until the command finishes executing.  By default nosleep
just prevents the computer from going to sleep during idle periods.  More
aggressive options are available to inhibit sleep or hibernation, but
these come with warnings and an onerous Disclaimer."
category: Utils
requires: libargp
</setup.hint>

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-09/msg00071.html

wget \
 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/setup.hint \
 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/nosleep-0.1.3-1.tar.bz2 \

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/nosleep-0.1.3-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 06:15:37AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>I'd like to package and maintain nosleep for Cygwin.  nosleep runs a
>command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until
>the command finishes executing.  By default nosleep just prevents the
>computer from going to sleep during idle periods.  More aggressive options
>are available to inhibit sleep or hibernation, but these come with warnings
>and an onerous Disclaimer.

+1

cgf

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Reini Urban]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 06:15:37AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>I'd like to package and maintain nosleep for Cygwin.  nosleep runs a
>>command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until
>>the command finishes executing.  By default nosleep just prevents the
>>computer from going to sleep during idle periods.  More aggressive options
>>are available to inhibit sleep or hibernation, but these come with warnings
>>and an onerous Disclaimer.
>
> +1

+1
-- 
Reini

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/25/2011 6:15 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available in
> any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.

+1

--
Chuck

RE: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

On 9/25/2011 6:15 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available 
> in any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.

Just wondering ...

Since "nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin", might it make
sense to add this to cygutils ("A collection of simple utilities")?

Just a thought - not a request.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Andrew Schulman]

> On 9/25/2011 6:15 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available 
> > in any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.
> 
> Just wondering ...
> 
> Since "nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin", might it make
> sense to add this to cygutils ("A collection of simple utilities")?

It doesn't matter to me either way.  My guess is that since nosleep is brand
new, people might want some time to try it out and gain confidence that it works
as advertised, before adopting it as a standard utility.

A few other considerations:

* nosleep currently depends on libargp, which cygutils probably doesn't want to
do.  That could be worked around by importing the argp source into nosleep, but
I don't know if cygutils wants to increase its size by that much.

* Although it's currently only implemented for Cygwin, nosleep has big (waking)
dreams of being implemented on other platforms too.  So it may not stay a
Cygwin-only utility.  Not sure if that matters.

Andrew.

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Reini Urban]

>> On 9/25/2011 6:15 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> > nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available
>> > in any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.

And now I'd really need it for MacOSX.
Let's see if I'll have enough tuits next week.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://cpanel.net/   http://www.perl-compiler.org/

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Andrew Schulman]

> >> On 9/25/2011 6:15 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> > nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available
> >> > in any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.
> 
> And now I'd really need it for MacOSX.
> Let's see if I'll have enough tuits next week.

I have no experience with OS X, so I can't directly comment on that.  But
if there's a Cocoa or Darwin API that allows you to do things like check
whether AC power is on and keep the computer from going into idle sleep,
then it might be quite easy to port nosleep to OS X.  It's a small program.

For details please see the nosleep project page [1].  I'd like to see
nosleep ported to other platforms, and would be glad to discuss that with
you - maybe in the bug tracker for nosleep, since this is OT here.

A caution:  Being a Linux user, I looked into how one would implement
nosleep in Linux.  From what I can tell, chaos reigns there.  Although ACPI
would seem to be a likely API for it, the way people have been doing it in
practice is desktop-specific with a lot of ugly special cases.  I'm
thinking of Caffeine [2] in particular.  In OS X though, I'd expect things
to be more orderly.

[1] https://launchpad.net/nosleep
[2] https://launchpad.net/caffeine

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Chris Sutcliffe]

On 25 September 2011 06:15, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available in
> any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.

+1

Chris

-- 
Chris Sutcliffe
http://emergedesktop.org
http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

[Christian Franke]

Andrew Schulman wrote:
> nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available in
> any Linux distros and needs to be voted on.
>
>    

+1

Christian

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1 (needs GTG)

[Andrew Schulman]

> I'd like to package and maintain nosleep for Cygwin.  nosleep runs a
> command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until
> the command finishes executing.

Thanks for voting everyone.  Would someone now please review the packaging?
The package is small - just one exectable and 6 doc files.

I've prepared a new release that corrects the source URL in the cygport
script.  URLs are below.

Thanks,
Andrew.

wget \
 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/setup.hint \
 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/nosleep-0.1.3-2.tar.bz2 \
 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/nosleep/nosleep-0.1.3-2-src.tar.bz2
 

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1 (needs GTG)

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/30/2011 6:00 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> I'd like to package and maintain nosleep for Cygwin.  nosleep runs a
>> command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until
>> the command finishes executing.
> 
> Thanks for voting everyone.  Would someone now please review the packaging?
> The package is small - just one exectable and 6 doc files.

Packaging is GTG.  I didn't check the application's functionality.

Since you don't have a test suite, you might want to define a src_test
function in the cygport:

src_test() {
	:
}


--
Chuck

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1 (needs GTG)

[Andrew Schulman]

> Packaging is GTG.

Thanks.

>  I didn't check the application's functionality.

Right.  Unfortunately there's no fast or easy way to do that.  You have to run a
command that takes longer than your idle sleep timer, for example, and check
that the machine doesn't go to sleep.  I have done that and verified that each
of the options works as described, at least on my Windows 7 laptop.  But as I
describe in the man page, it's just hard to completely stop a host from going to
sleep, so it's always going to be hard to completely test that nosleep is
working as intended.

> Since you don't have a test suite, you might want to define a src_test
> function in the cygport:
> 
> src_test() {
> 	:
> }

OK, I'll do that.  

Package uploaders:  please wait for an RFU for nosleep 0.1.3-3.

Maybe in time I can develop a proper test suite, but it will always be a bit
labor-intensive.

Andrew.

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1 (needs GTG)

[Reini Urban]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>  I didn't check the application's functionality.
>
> Right.  Unfortunately there's no fast or easy way to do that.  You have to run a
> command that takes longer than your idle sleep timer, for example, and check
> that the machine doesn't go to sleep.  I have done that and verified that each
> of the options works as described, at least on my Windows 7 laptop.  But as I
> describe in the man page, it's just hard to completely stop a host from going to
> sleep, so it's always going to be hard to completely test that nosleep is
> working as intended.

> Maybe in time I can develop a proper test suite, but it will always be a bit
> labor-intensive.

I would like to see a test with simple command lines without checking
the nosleep behavior. Just to check if can correctly pass the command
with options with proper quoting.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://cpanel.net/   http://www.perl-compiler.org/

Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1 (needs GTG)

[Andrew Schulman]

> I would like to see a test with simple command lines without checking
> the nosleep behavior. Just to check if can correctly pass the command
> with options with proper quoting.

OK, this is a good idea.  It's a first functional test.  So I created a new
release upstream, 0.1.4, containing a new test directory and a 'make test' 
target that runs all of the scripts there.

At present there's one test.  It runs a helper script that just prints the 
number and content of its command line arguments.  The test runs the helper 
with some command line arguments:

helper/args.sh arg1 --arg2 - "arg 4"

It runs that with and without nosleep, compares the results, and fails 
noisily if they're different.

'cygport nosleep-0.1.4-1 test' now runs the functional tests from upstream, 
specifically the argument check.  It succeeds for me.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Andrew.