Restructuring dehs code (was: [Dehs-devel] dehs welcome)

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:38:30AM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote:
> On 03/17/2005 04:16 PM, Bluefuture wrote:
> 
> >- Lucas Wall
> >He wants cleanup and standardizing dehs in a new branch over svn. He
> >will announce it on this mailing list.
> 
> Sorry about the delay, I've been quite busy these last few days. I'm now 
> starting to get my usual free time back.
> 
> The plan is to restructure the code into php clases (or function were 
> appropiate). The initial step means no functional change, but the idea 
> is to make the base code more clear and have some code that could be 
> used over several scripts.

right, having a clear code base is important!
while we are at it: since dehs (now) is mostly static what about switching over
from php to python (from my POV python looks more appropriate, no
religious wars please :))

> 
> Stefano also mentioned me that the database schema needs some review. He 
> told me it lacks foreign keys, for example.

here I can be of little help since I'm no DB guru :)

> 
> After this is complete my plan was to write a robot to handle some 
> aspects of dehs using mail. The main idea is to write a script that 
> would accept watch files as attachments and use then as if they had been 
> extracted from a package. Dehs would keep track of the latest source 
> (package and mail) and keep the newest one. This would allow anyone to 
> help in maintaining dehs without being part of the main team or being 
> the package maintainer.

this idea sounds really intriguing! nice!

filippo