On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:34:11 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time) Mark Livingstone 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

ML> > (1) I have been meaning to dive into the M codebase in recent months,
ML> > but life has delayed my ambitions a little -- so I'm not 100% sure
ML> > that what I'm asking for does not already exist. 

 Unfortunately no.

ML> > However, I would very much like to see M functionality be completely
ML> > exposed through an API of some sort.

 Yes, this would be nice -- and would be very helpful for (moribund) Python
integration.

ML> > would really like to see the addressbook functionality separated out
ML> > into a more generic software interface.

 It's already done more or less like this internally. You can write ADB
provider modules, i.e. you just have to create a DLL implementing some
(simple) interface and you can plug it in Mahogany.

 As a (very simple) example, it was completely trivial to add expansion of
the people in /etc/passwd under Unix, it took me 15 minutes to write a new
"Password" ADB provider and that was it. In a similar way you can already
write a back end using a database.

 Regards,
VZ



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