[Webmin-maintainers] webmin co-maintenance maybe adoption

[Arthur Korn]

--ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi

[I'm subscribed to webmin-maintainers, no need for Cc]

Andreas Schuldei schrieb:
> then we want to go over the source and replace the rather crappy
> perl4 with up to date perl5 and attempt to clean up the source
> where possible.

Hmm, so what would that mean? Just killing the & on subroutines,
introducing prototypes, using real modules and namespaces
(webmin does something strange when one module uses another I
remember, didn't use that for some time), or even going OO?
Making things strict-clean would be desirable.

Generally I think just porting webmin 1 to perl5 maybe isn't
such a great idea, since we can change hardly anything without
breaking all the 3rd party modules out there.

> are you willing to work on this, too?

I'd be willing to help on small changes with immediate value
without sacrifiying module-compatibility, such as making things
strict-clean to simplify error-catching, maybe even start using
tainting, coming up with a usable HTML "widget set" library (I
coded something in that direction for webmin-afbackup which
saved me tons of nerves, I could come up with something even
more useful).

As for the big changes: It would probably make for an
interesting project but I lack time and motivation for that.

ciao, 2ri
--=20
Secure email, spread GPG, clearsign all mail. http://www.gnupg.org
=2E
Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.
 -- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary

--ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: Digital signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFCH4zDNgpsykSg/LgRA0EVAJ959TwbzUn/2q5UFoXIIKJyhTkcVACgoR5Y
fzN74Kb0SG2AEgdGHdwczCE=
=wyxN
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd--