have any of you played with dailystrips? this is a very neat perl script
that can download daily comics from the web and generate a page of them
without the surrounding cruft. i have been using it for a while and
recently made some changes to my setup that made me look at the source
code. i was not happy with its quality and quickly realized that it
could be refactored into something much smaller and neater with all the
nice advantages of being easier to maintain. i mentioned this idea to
the author and he liked the idea of getting advice from a perl
guru. little does he know me :).
so my proposal here is to do a (semi-)public refactoring of his
script. this can be done with a mailing list, cvs, irc channel, kwiki,
etc. this script is perfect for this. it is straightforward in design,
it parses stuff, processes it, prints output. it is understandable, no
too long or short (1300 lines which will be MANY less when refactored),
has plenty of naive and redundant perl that can be improved, etc. many
can participate as we break down the script into chinks that can be
rewritten.
the latest dailystrips source is at:
http://dailystrips.sourceforge.net/download.html
i would like to be able to track the project as well to document how a
refactor is done.
anyone want to host a kwiki or mailing list? i can do the list (easy)
and even the kwiki (never done it but sounds easy).
any thoughts or interest?
uri
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