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

[Nick C. <ni...@cl...>]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 03:31:05PM +0200, Thomas Lochmatter wrote:
> It is now available on
> http://www.lothosoft.ch/thomas/formmail-oo/formmail-oo.zip
> Note that I haven't tested it much. Due to my limited time, the
> documentation is very short. If you have questions, don't hestitate to ask.

That's a nice script, I certainly think you should put in the time to
document and test it and then release it.  There are a number of
reasons why it might not be suitable for NMS though:

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.

Have you considered releasing it somewhere like www.freshmeat.net, so
that it gets a more technical userbase than it would have as an NMS
script ?

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Nick