At 10:56 AM 9/13/2005, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:00:28AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
> AFAIK this isn't all that easy in SA versions under 3.1.
It's actually the same difficulty with 3.0 as with 3.1. Just use a plugin.
(Ok, 3.1 is easier since the plugin already exists ... But it wouldn't be
hard to write a custom one for 3.0.)
Fair enough, but that's assuming that one has a solid working knowledge of
perl and of SA's plugin API. :)
I for one, don't know either. I'd have to learn perl, and read up on the
plugin API before I started.
Given that a lot of people on this list have trouble with regexes, I would
suggest that your average user doesn't know perl at all. Thus, writing a
plugin of any sort would be on the "very hard" end of the scale for most
users of the list. (There are plenty of perl experts here, but I think the
majority of the list has limited or no perl knowledge)
Having the plugin available in 3.1 makes this much easier for the average
Joe. However, I will concede that it's not hard for a highly technical user
to just create a plugin of their own.
