Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Eugene Zaikonnikov <[email protected]> writes:

> * "Daniel" == Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> Daniel>  I do have half a Perl transliteration of the sexp-ipc thing I
> Daniel>  was hacking last weekend: I'm trying to decide on a good
> Daniel>  sample app to hack remote control into before I do a wider
> Daniel>  release - tentatively thinking that a wrapper for the mpg123
> Daniel>  (or actually 321) remote control interface would be neat.
> 
> Speaking of sample apps: if anyone can think of an interesting (and/or
> desirable) network application for me to implement with Etiquette, I
> am all ears. At the moment, writing an MTA is under consideration,
> however, the amount of work left to properly implement the
> functionality not directly related to networking is somewhat scary.

So how about this--you write a POP3 library that does the protocol but
calls specified but unimplemented (by you) generic functions with the
results. Then anyone who wants to talk to a POP3 server in order to
write an MTA or a spam filter (a la POPFile) has a head start on the
part that Ettiquette is good for.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      [email protected]

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp