Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] nms-FormMail-OO

[Thomas L. <sou...@lo...>]

Nick Cleaton <ni...@cl...> wrote:
> NMS scripts must run without warnings under -wT, and formmail-oo doesn't
> yet.
>
> Your use of the 'our' keyword means that perl 5.6 or newer is needed,
> and NMS scripts must work with perls back to 5.00404.
>
> NMS aims to be useful to non-technical end users, whereas formmail-oo
> seems to concentrate on being extensible by technical users.  While
> formmail-oo provides a nice starting point for a technical user to kick
> off from, I can see non-technical users getting into an awful mess
> by trying to extend it.  NMS attracts a lot of non-technical users, and
> I don't want to end up trying to patch them up after they've shot
> themselves in the foot with formmail-oo and then limped bleeding to the
> support list.


I agree with all the points you mentionned. Especially the amount of support
could be much bigger.

I saw that you were discussing about modular versions of your scripts a few
month ago. There I also read about the idea to create a "sister project" for
that. Do you intend to do that? Is there something planned?

Thomas