sivy/py-statsd — pull request #53 by 0xDEC0DE (2012-11-15 00:20:19+00:00)
Title: Fix gauge support, make the pidfile friendlier

I thought I could send each of these as their own pull request, but GitHub doesn't work that way. So here's two small patches to pystatsd:

1. Drop the pidfile in /var/run instead of /tmp. The former is more "standard" than the latter.
2. Implement gauges on the server-side, rather than having them go through the same code path as counters. They now adhere to the Principle of Least Surprise when using them.