> David Sparks wrote: > > I wanted to add some kind of extended config support for plugins that > > I'm writing that run at connect, mail from and rcpt to stages. I hacked > > in YAML support into lib/Qpsmtpd.pm (the diff is below but I'm not > > submitting this as a patch ... at this point at least). > > Robert, at least, has expressed a distinct lack of interest in adding > YAML support to the core code. As long as the "damage" is limited to > your own plugins, though, I don't think it should be a problem.
Yes, I'd like to avoid putting a 'require YAML' in the main codebase. But - David's message got me thinking - it is probably time to factor out the config reading code from being a huge if/elsif/elsif/elsif/elsif tree into being classful. Then people could easily have add-on config plugins.
