Re: Special Interest Groups - HTTP/CGI and SMTP/MIME

   From: Chris Babcock <[email protected]>

   > Start CRM114mk2 and clean things up as you've described.

   What I'm really panting for is a socket interface. When netcat is in
   listening mode, it doesn't close stdout until the client closes the
   socket. That makes the keep flag useless for running a server on just
   about any protocol. I want to set up something co-routine-like that
   blocks execution of the crm script while waiting for a network
   connection then spawns a handler thread to deal with the connection
   while the main program goes back to waiting for a new connection.

Hmmm...  lemme think a bit.

So, what you want is a "spawn on event=connect" to a socket?

As you might guess, I didn't think of that in the original design,
although for mail filtering, yeah, it might be cool to have
the entire mail handler live in CRM114.

   Some flavor of scoping or notion of name spaces will have to happen
   before it's feasible to develop library code... and candidly, that's
   what I spend most of my time doing. I've got a dirt simple SMTP client,
   some basic CGI stuff and an HTML template driver. It's surprisingly few
   LOCs, but it's enough that I've put off upgrading to BlameBarack.=20

Namespaces are easy.  Just prefix all of YOUR variables with
LIBNAME_ . So, your library foo would have

   :FOO_var1:
   :FOO_var2:

and so on.  

Note this is an old technique; DEC VMS software used three-letter 
code prefixes from day 1, and getting your three-letter prefix was
the "first birthday" for any software project.

   I'm kind of hoping that the scoping mechanism in the main branch is
   something really novel and idiomaticly CRM. Since you can syscall
   labels, using syscall v. call isn't really that big of a deal. If
   declaring namespaces were explicit, though, existing code would still
   work and accessing libraries would be transparent. The issue would then
   be finding an idiomatic way to declare the namespace.

We're thinking about it.  But libcrm114 comes first.
  
   - Bill Yerazunis

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