Re: mlmmj code refactoring, for ease of reuse

["Jakob Hirsch" <jh@plonk.de>]

Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:

> I would like to create a convenient system for provisioning mlmmj
> mailinglists across a network. That is, I would like to be able to connect
> to a daemon on a given host, and tell it to create a list, subscribe a
> user, unsubscribe a user, etc. This would also make it easier to create
> user interfaces for manipulating mlmmj.
>
> In order to minimize the work involved, I intend to write the thing in C,

I think coding in C does usually not minimize the work. Instead of reusing
the mlmmj code (and therefore having to keep pace with new versions), I'd
rather do it The Unix Way: Write a simple wrapper script/programm (Perl,
Python, Ruby, $whatever, even in C that's no big deal) which reads
commands from a tcp socket or, even easier, reads from STDIN (so you can
use it with inetd), and invokes the corresponding mlmmj binary.
The only reason to do this in a single C programm would be performance,
but I guess you are not going to create thousands of lists per second.