Oct. 29, 2003
4:11 p.m.
On Oct 29, 2003, at 1:05 PM, David Birnbaum wrote:
- grep, perl, awk, vim, emacs, cp, mv, tar, etc. don't work too well on SQL databases, but are nice for admins who want quick and dirty searching, move mailman to a new machine, or need to poke around.
and given how many admins never see anything but the web site, that's a nice thing, but far from an important one.
- third-party add-ons make it that much harder to install. If I have to set up a Mysql or Postgres database to use Mailman, it's a step that will put off people who don't already have it going.
actually, if you do it right, it's much easier -- because when you build in those tools, you build in standardized interfaces that third party add-ons can access, instead of the current case, which are code hacks that break every time Barry burps at the CVS server...