Re: [s-d] proposal parser

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Antonio Dolcetta wrote:

> Daniel Lepage wrote:
>
>> Am I crazy, or would this work?
>>
>
> I think it would be great, and a big leap forward for the whole nomic
> community. Let's immediately start a sourceforge project!
>
>
> Drawbacks:
> It would take a lot more time and effort than the simple proposal  
> parser
> I had in mind.
> A simple proposal parser tailored for bnomic would mean that you would
> basically just play as you have always played, with some minimal
> differences, and it would "just work", a generalized proposal manager
> would be harder to adapt to.

I'm not convinced it would be that much more work. Certainly it  
wouldn't take extra work to have the authentication in a separate  
program, because we could just copy the code over. Choosing a module  
based on a string in the subject is also pretty trivial (at least in  
Python; I'm not that good with PHP or Perl but I assume it's not too  
hard there either). And parsing the header is a trivial exercise in  
pattern-matching. That's all the system would need, to start with;  
features like PGP encryption or smart logging of events could be  
added later as needed.

-- 
Wonko

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