On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:45:51 -0400, "Walter Wyndroski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't modified the code. No, you've replaced it. > In fact it was outright cryptic if you've > never been exposed to python or ht2html before. ht2html is purely optional. tmda-cgi uses the html files in the template directory, regardless of how they get there. I've used ht2html to generate the html files for the Blue theme because that is consistent with the tools used to generate TMDA's documentation. If you don't like ht2html, create the html files by hand or using your favorite WYSIWYG editor. > Which now that I've been > told that the templates from the actual install directory are used, it's not > so bad. Anyway, I was not trying to stir anything or attempting one-up > anyone. I figured I would contribute some open-source code of my own. Contributing is good, and I don't want to discourage that, but by rewriting a package that we already had, you are dividing the project's focus and manpower. Unless what you are contributing offers something that tmda-cgi doesn't (and I do not mean to imply that tmda-cgi is the end-all-be-all solution) then I don't see the point. If you see things that tmda-cgi should address and doesn't, then I'd rather see you contribute modules for it. If you think that tmda-cgi's basic template offers too much freedom for a common class of users, then I'd rather see you contribute (and be prepared to maintain) a stripped-down template. I hope I didn't come off as "biting off your head" because that is not my intention, but hopefully you can understand that I'm not really interested in recounting all of security quagmires and stumbling blocks that we have covered this last year and a half with tmda-cgi. There was a lot of them, I can assure you, and I think the holes have finally been plugged. I think I've contributed a lot of effort to one CGI tool for TMDA and I don't want to do it again. <aside> If anything, the biggest problem (IMHO) with Linux is that too many people have created different solutions for the same problem. KDE v.s. Gnome comes to mind. Had application programmers been able to focus on a single window manager, perhaps Linux would have sooner become more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. Maybe even before they became such a world dominator. </aside> So to sum up, write whatever the heck you want to, but if your goal is to CONTRIBUTE, then focus on improving the existing tools instead of replacing them (unless you feel they are fundamentally flawed and incapable of being improved without a rewrite). Gre7g. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
