David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hehe, I was going to post about how you don't have to do everything in > perl, and my other example apart from mediawiki would be mailman. > Really, both mediawiki and mailman are very good, and the effort > required to do better in perl would, in my opinion, be too much to make > it worthwhile.
I don't like Mailman and feel it's not a very good project. There are bugs and submitted patches just sit there for years. For example, http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1054944&group_id=103&atid=100103 (and yes, I've also tried emailing them, using informal contacts at FSF and so on). I think the Mailman project is in pole position and doesn't feel it needs to be good to continue. Competition needed? Sympa is a usable perl mailing list manager. http://www.sympa.org/ Across all implementation languages, Enemies of Carlotta, mlmmj and GroupServer are nicer than Mailman in my experience. I do remember battling MajorDomo, though. I haven't had much to do with MediaWiki, but Kwiki seemed OK a few years ago. I quite like what HantsLUG have been trying to do with UseMod to make it into a more abuse-resistant one called AbUseMod too. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
