Module writing docs/coding guidelines

[Sean Dilda <se...@duke.edu>]

I'm about to embark on writing a new provisioning module for VCL based 
on some existing perl scripts I have.  Is there any documentation for 
how the module interface works?  I haven't been able to find any aside 
from reading existing modules.  Also are there any required/preferred 
coding guidelines for this project?


For those that are interested, this module is going to be another ESX 
provisioning module.  This module will use VMware snapshots to create 
deployed VMs as snapshots against the base image's disk, which leads to 
extremely quick provisioning with little wasted disk usage. Its based on 
the techniques used in the ghetto linked clones script 
(http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9020) but rewritten in perl 
using the VI Perl Toolkit.  I already have stand alone scripts in perl 
that work, so this is mostly an exercise of converting those scripts 
into a VCL module.