On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:47:03 -0500 (CDT) R Hannes Beinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Mark! > > I want to commend you for undertaking this QA effort. As seemingly > obvious as this role is for an opensource project, very few have > someone filling this need. Nice job! Thanks for your kind words Hannes. > Pursuant to your request for comments, I would like to oblige! Great :-) > (1) I have been meaning to dive into the M codebase in recent > months, but > life has delayed my ambitions a little -- so I'm not 100% sure that > what > I'm asking for does not already exist. However, I would very much > like > to see M functionality be completely exposed through an API of some > sort. > Similarly, it would be mighty nice for all data & email to be > accessible, > as well. Specifically, M could then hopefully be used as an email > DBMS. > > If this were done as an OO interface, then internal/external > scripting > could have some awesome potential! Well, at one time a bunch of the internals were exposed via Python but it got deprecated when insufficient developers were available. I think it is just commented out so there is no reason why it ciuld not be resurrected by someone with the time / inclination. > > (2) On the subject of addressbooks, I would definitely like to vote > for > multiple addressbooks (rather than a single one). Furthermore, I That seems to be a common view. > would > really like to see the addressbook functionality separated out into > a > more generic software interface. A simple default database driver > would > be supplied with the M distro, and would essentially provide the > current > functionality. Other drivers could then be written, however, to > work with > MS Access, SQLLite, MySQL, etc. In my view the beauty of this > approach > is that it would enable M to use other existing > addressbooks/databases, > and allow centralization of address information, rather than being > one > more application which maintains its own distinct and disjoint > database. Well, there is wxODBC so maybe there is another project you can help us with. Why not join the developer list and see what you can help with? :-) > > (Again, if what I'm saying is excessively ignorant, forgive me...) Not at all. Thanks, Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
