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@@ -35,23 +35,14 @@ If you install gotop by hand, or you download or create new layouts or colorsche ``` - **OSX**: gotop is in *homebrew-core*. `brew install gotop`. Make sure to uninstall and untap any previous installations or taps. - **Prebuilt binaries**: Binaries for most systems can be downloaded from [the github releases page](https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop/releases). RPM and DEB packages are also provided. -- **Prebuild binaries with extensions**: - - [NVidia GPU support](https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop-nvidia/releases) - - [Remote gotop support](https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop-remote/releases) -- **Source**: This requires Go >= 1.14. `go get -u github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop/cmd/gotop` +- **Source**: gotop requires Go >= 1.14: `go get -u github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop/cmd/gotop` ### Extension builds -An evolving mechanism in gotop are extensions. This is designed to allow gotop to support feature sets that are not universally needed without blowing up the application for average users with unused features. Examples are support for specific hardware sets like video cards, or things that are just obviously not a core objective of the application, like remote server monitoring. +Extensions have proven problematic; go plugins are not usable in real-world cases, and the solution I had running for a while was hacky, at best. Consequently, extensions have been moved into the main code base for now. -The path to these extensions is a tool called [gotop-builder](https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop-builder). It is easy to use and depends only on having Go installed. You can read more about it on the project page, where you can also find binaries for Linux that have *all* extensions built in. If you want less than an all-inclusive build, or one for a different OS/architecture, you can use gotop-builder itself to create your own. - -There are currently two extensions: - -- Support for [NVidia GPUs](https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop-nvidia), which add GPU usage, memory, and temperature data to the respective widgets -- Support for [remote devices](https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop-remote), which allows running gotop on a remote machine and seeing the sensors from that as if they were local sensors. - -There are builds for those binaries for Linux in each of the repositories. +- nvidia support: requires the `enable` flag. Detecting nvidia hardware, or rather, the absense of NVidia hardware, can take seconds; this greatly slows down gotop's start-up time. To avoid this, the NVidia code will not be run unless it has been enabled with the `--enable nvidia` runtime flag. +- remote: allows gotop to pull sensor data from applications exporting Prometheus metrics, including remote gotop instances themselves. ### Console Users |