Re: [mlmmj] Google Summer of Code

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

On 03/06/2011 08:29 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
>    - Make a CGI binary (i.e. another small program written in C like the
>      rest of Mlmmj--small and slim) to allow archive browsing.

IMHO, using C for writing web interfaces is both counter-productive and
a security risk. BTW, what is the problem with things like mhonarc? I
think that generating static content is always better than (uselessly)
generating on-the-fly dynamic content.

>    - Refactor some code into clearer modules and extend the list access
>      module to support per-user options (delivery mode of normal, digest
>      or nomail, their real name, notmetoo, whether they're a moderator,
>      whether they're moderated, etc.). Possibly do this in a new module
>      that uses a database backend.

If we need a db, *please* make it possible to choose the back-end (like
for example: sqlite, postgres or MySQL).

Thomas