Michael Maibaum wrote: > > I'd be willing to help with this, assuming it was perl rather than > shell, I can't claim to be a huge expert but this should be fairly > straightforward (famous last words....).
well my feeling is that it would be better to use perl (even though i'm not myself a great perl expert). i would be happy to help with testing, ideas, some programming, and i could probably setup cvs / server space for the project if necessary. i could setup a mailing list for it pretty easily as well if needed. david champion wrote me off list and suggested an idea that is similar to something i was thinking about; he suggested writing it in a modular way so that people could contribute modules (ie he could contribute an elm module, someone else could contribute a pine module)... obviously there'd have to be some provision for working out possible conflicts between modules, but i think this would be a good approach. the modules could maybe be template based (ie no actual code... just text that's easily parsable by the script), which would make it easy for people to contribute to / make improvements. -- Will Yardley william @ newdream . net
