Re: Language debate (as suggested by Avleen Vig)

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:09:55AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Why not split vexim ? the specific and complex part is exim4  
> configuration and association with antispam
> filter and sql db tables. Many frameworks could be used to handle  
> lists of users and options.
> 
> That's why I would propose to split vexim into vexim-core, which  
> would have a conf file to tell it the name of tables, fields, and all  
> options (which spam filter, which version of what) and would have a  
> good documented api. All this can ba achieved by a bash or tclsh  
> script and a man page.
> Maybe this command line tool could even generate exim4 config files.
> 
> Then this rock solid core could be used by many users to build their  
> own language specific system with gui, in their preferred language  
> (php5, python, ruby and so on).


I like this idea.  I was toying around with doing that in our environment
as I love the front end for customers and sub-admins, but found that I
sometimes need a little more power on the siteadmin part.  It would be nice
to be able to program against some api or core set of libs.  Now that I have
said that, I do imagine it would be a fair amount of work :-)

I suppose one could use the cmd module from Python to wrapper existing code :-)

Kelly Black