Hi Philip & Co., I'm back from holiday now, and I am still quite interested in merging the patch, or at least getting it towards a point where it might be considered for merging.
I spent about 30 minutes tonight trying to figure out where the Exim docuemntation sources live, and failed miserably. Are they within the Exim distribution itself? I am going to try and empty the wishlist and todo items for the patch in the coming weeks. Some of this stuff is simple, eg. converting to and from a dictionary type automatically. Other stuff could prove slightly controversial, for example providing a 'python' transport that delegated the task of delivery to a Python function or method. If the router/lookup/transport/authenticator functionality works like I hope it will (ie. it will actually be useful for the cases I have in mind), then I'll try to massage it back to code stability, and then perhaps start to look at getting it merged upstream. There is a slowly rising lack of portability of the code - this would be especially true if I attempted to add threading. Currently, the patch's only known portability failing is a blind call to vsnprintf(). I am of course, fully receptive to the opinions of the more experienced developers on this list, especially regarding the router/transport idea. Cheers, David. On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:52:33AM +0000, David Wilson wrote: > The patch, along with a prepatched tarball can be downloaded from: > > http://botanicus.net/dw/exim-python.php > I hope to become more active in developing this patch further. In > particular, I would shortly like to add the following abilities: > > - Pass "key=value" lists in and out of Python functions, converted to > and from the Python dictionary type automatically. > - Make available a router, transport, authenticator, and lookup that > can execute Python code. > - [Possibly] provide a way to run a Python intepreter as a thread off > the main Exim process. > - Document guidelines for creation of Python resources, eg. database > connections, threads, and file descriptors. > - Reformat the patch to Exim coding standards. > - Produce documentation that is merged with the main Exim specification. -- What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake? -- Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
