Dstat discontinued, forked to Dool

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Name

dstat

Last Update Date

2019-01-16

Link to an announcement of archival or deprecation, if applicable.

dstat-real/dstat#170

Reason for deprecation

Due to RedHat creating a naming conflict, the long-time (since 2004) developer of dstat discontinued the project in 2019.

• https://github.com/dstat-real/dstat?tab=readme-ov-file#dstat-development-has-been-terminated

Another developer forked it and continued development as dool. This fork has been linked from the original dstat readme, indicating the original authors blessing. This project has been very active in the years since with 1 or 2 releases per year for the last 3 years.

Notable differences:

• default output format and plugins changed, --dstat flag for backwards compatibility
• dstat was made for Python2, though Python3 was planned for the 0.8.x release, the project was discontinued, dool fully supports Python3 (and is no longer compatible with Python2)

The latest version and build of dool is:

• 1.3.3
• https://github.com/scottchiefbaker/dool/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.3.tar.gz

Since it is a fork with similar code and functionality, it may be possible to directly upgrade this package, possibly with a shim.

Note: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/blob/main/packages/d/dstat/package.yml links to https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat which redirects to https://github.com/dstat-real/dstat