On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:16:03 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:09:44 +0200 (CEST) Robert Vazan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RV> What's the purpose of filter language? > > Err, write filters. What do you mean? I meant to ask what advantages does it provide over Gui editor and Python. > RV> How is it different from Python scripting? > > It is a tiny specialized language, nothing as powerful as Python, and it > is built in into M and always available. I don't think that availability matters that much for advanced tool like scripted filters. People who need it can certainly afford installation of Python. Gui editor is powerful enough for most filters. Not that I would want to remove working feature. But I think that by replacing it with Python and providing unique features like isfromme and isspam through API, we can have simpler in implementation, yet more powerful filters. > It is rather the contrary: it is possible to call Python functions from > the filter language (see "python()" function). This is what would end up in Gui editor (if it isn't there already -- hard to tell without working Python). Or there could be a scripting area where one could write longer scripts. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
