sosreport/sosreport — pull request #17 by jhjaggars (2011-12-14 22:17:06+00:00)
Title: Major updates to most of SoSReport

Code reorganization
Cross platform support for Windows, OS X and Linux
Dynamically loaded policies
Support for loading plugins from multiple locations
via __path__ modification of sos.plugins
Support for running via Jython
Support for executing from a jarfile
Support for json based reporting infrastructure
- Previous reporting methods still exist
Support for other checksum algorithms (determined by policy)
Support for other compression algorithms (determined by policy)
New plugin API for writing arbitrary information in a new file inside
the report archive.
New plugin API for modifying files that have been added to the
archive.
Added API for global plugin options
- external interface is unavailable at this time
Many small bugfixes