Wn changed, for the better?

TTSG ttsg at ttsg.com
Wed Aug 23 23:43:09 UTC 2000


> 
> >> Most folks who have needed to feed every incoming message through a
> >> program haven't taken that many incoming messages.  :/ I agree that
> >> it's a wart; it's one that hasn't been fixed yet to my satisfaction.  I
> >> can think of a few ways that would improve it that I'll try to work on.
> 
> > 	And I'm open to suggestions for the same.
> 
> A Perl interface to the storage library would probably be the best case
> for you, the more I think about it.  Since you have to initialize the
> storage library to get token to path mappings for tradspool anyway, you
> probably don't want to fork off sm for every article even if all it's
> doing is the token translation.
>
	Nope, not in the least. Plus I have a "thing" about invoking
programs from within Perl. It gets messy.
>
> I've been thinking for a while about shipping INN with some Perl modules
> as a standard part of the distrubtion (but possibly not installed by
> default).
>
	I'd like that!
>
> Although I see that Katsuhiro just had an even better idea which works so
> long as you're using traditional spool.
> 
	Gets me out of the weeds for now, Thanks Katsuhiro!!!

	Still would like an interface in the long run.

		Tuc/TTSG



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