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Hi,
Martyn Pearce:
> Mark Mielke writes:
> | I never suggested that backwards compatibility be sacrificed. I suggest
> | that the code should eventually be fixed. MajorDomo is one of those tools
> | that hasn't been touched in years (unless I'm wrong here), and NEEDS
> | some clean up.
>
Majordomo is a bad example -- it's getting more and more useless every day.
> So, why does it "NEED" some clean up? Ain't broke, don't fix, yadda
> yadda.
>
It _is_ broken. A "normal" Perl programmer could wrap their mind around
the code a few years ago, but today the first thing I'd do if I had to
fix a nontrivial Majordomo problem would be to global-replace every
single instance of main' with main::, to rewrite the whole thing to use
$data{$adress}{key} instead of $key1{$address} through $key99{$address},
and to modularize the whole thing -- simply because I wouldn't trust my
understanding of the beast otherwise. That's a _lot_ of work.
This is not exactly on-topic, but we found that it's a whole lot cheaper
_and_ a whole lot faster to take a spare machine, install linux+mysql+
+qmail+ezmlm-idx on it, and *bingo* you have a fast mailing list manager
with a database backend and automatic bad-address tracking, instead of a
clunky fossil which is none of these things.
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