Re: [libdb-develop] Python module - intent

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

> Hi Morbus (and others),

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I get in these email ruts where the 
Inbox keeps getting larger and larger, and I keep finding more and more 
work to do to stop me from answering it all. I've sent 50 messages out 
so far this morning, so I'm making some nice headway ;)

> I have made an attempt to read the Perl code.  Well, all I 
> can say is, I *thought* I had learned Perl, but I seemed to 
> have forgotten what I learned.  Your comments and program 
> file style are a great relief from the usual hacker fare, 
> though -- thank you, I really respect that!

Thanks - I get that a lot, actually :)

As Bruce said though, the code has moved to PHP. You can see my 
rationale for doing so here: http://libdb.com/why_drupal. Long story 
short, I felt an OPAC/CMS was more powerful and ultimately useful than 
just OPAC, and I really had no desire to make a new CMS. Drupal had 
blown me away when I first implemented it for Gamegrene.com, and it was 
a perfect fit, IMO, for LibDB.

The new CVS for LibDB is:

  http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contrib/contributions/modules/libdb/

And you can see the latest module code (libdb.module) in there. Here's 
hoping my PHP code is remotely like my Perl <g>. The code is documented 
with Doxygen, which allows me to automatically generate an API/HTML 
export. You can see that here: http://www.libdb.com/developer/api

> (or I'm not looking at the right bits), and I'm wondering 
> what it's for in a general way.  I wonder if I need to 

That code, and ultimately, the current Drupal code doesn't do much - 
refer to the just-posted message on "Embarrassing uberAlpha" for more 
information on this.

> I also am intrigued by the Javascript code you have for web 
> templates -- I wonder if I can make use of that, too, 
> provided there is enough similarity of purpose.

Yep - anything in the CVS (either the SF CVS with the Perl code, or the 
Drupal CVS) is Artistic or GPL licensed, so you can use it as needed.

-- 
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