Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread Erika Pacholleck
[08.03.02 00:03 +0100] Marco Fioretti -- : About this particular project: let's just do it in whatever language the majority of the volunteers is ALREADY proficient with, not with the one which the majority of the list thinks better for any reason. I do not agree to this, one thing I would

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread Marco Fioretti
[08.03.02 00:03 +0100] Marco Fioretti -- : About this particular project: let's just do it in whatever language .. I do not agree to this, one thing I would ask you to consider: Take a language which you can expect to be present on minimal systems. Why, yes, of course! I was giving

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread John Buttery
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:54:11AM +0100, Erika Pacholleck wrote: [08.03.02 00:03 +0100] Marco Fioretti -- : About this particular project: let's just do it in whatever language the majority of the volunteers is ALREADY proficient with, not with the one which the majority of the list thinks

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread Dan Boger
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: So, what language do the volunteers know better? I'll defenitly help if it's in perl, and will probably be useless in python. :) -- Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg25191/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread darren chamberlain
I'm going to reply to a bunch of messages all at once. I'm attaching my first quick attempt at a configuration script; I've called mutt-makeconfig, for lack of a better name. It's very brute force, but it works. The config is very basic, enough to get the bare minimum of personalized part of

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread Mike Erickson
* darren chamberlain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm going to reply to a bunch of messages all at once. I'm attaching my first quick attempt at a configuration script; I've called mutt-makeconfig, for lack of a better name. It's very brute force, but it works. The config is very basic,

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread darren chamberlain
Quoting Mike Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mar 08, 2002 11:51]: I think a major improvement would be to store the configuration file (sorry for the buzzword) metainfo seperately. *nod* Have a parsable file containg the options, possible values, and description. This will make adding new

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-08 Thread Will Yardley
darren chamberlain wrote: This was my thought, either attach ourselves to the mutt-newbie project or start a new project on sourceforge. yeah that might be the best idea. a few comments... the script looks like a good starting place. eek i probably should have put line numbers on it

About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-07 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, my two eurocent on this issue. Any language can be made readable or unreadable. Personally, I think that any program is readable if it has complete, up to date embedded comments explaining what is happening and meaningful variable names, even if the actual code looks like ancient Greek,

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Maibaum
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: Any language can be made readable or unreadable. Personally, I think that any program is readable if it has complete, up to date embedded comments explaining what is happening and meaningful variable names, even if the actual

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-07 Thread Will Yardley
Michael Maibaum wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: So, what language do the volunteers know better? Perl. my guess is that more people know perl well... that's nothing against python; from everything i've heard, python is a great language. i'm

Re: About the language for the mutt config tool

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Maibaum
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:39:48PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: Michael Maibaum wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: So, what language do the volunteers know better? Perl. my guess is that more people know perl well... that's nothing against