At 1:09 AM -0500 2004-09-22, Jon Roland wrote:
I've figured that out, and I can certainly see why it makes sense when the list administrator is not directly on the machine that hosts mailman, but it seems like it would be useful to have an alternative of running a python GUI that does the same thing without having to run the web server when the use for it is so limited. Just a suggested item for the to-do list.
I don't understand how you could possibly accomplish this. Are you proposing that the Python developers create an entire new Graphical User Interface, to compete with X11R6/Gnome/KDE and the like, and then somehow serve this remotely via the Internet?!?
There's a reason why standard tools like webservers are used for these kinds of things -- it's not excessively hard to implement a web interface component, you avoid re-inventing that wheel, and you avoid bloating your project by 100000000% as a result of incorporating all that duplicative code.
Graphical user environments like X11 are some of the biggest projects (in terms of millions of lines of code) of any type of system on the Internet. Somewhat smaller are major daemons to implement complex communications protocols with lots of plug-ins, sub-options, cryptographic security subsystems, and varieties of ways to configure them (such as apache).
Many, many orders of magnitude smaller are things like Python and Mailman. Heck, you could probably fit all of Python (including Mailman) into the space of a single plug-in for Apache.
Does the flea try to re-invent the elephant, so that it will have a place to live? Does the flea then try to incorporate the elephant into itself, so that it will always have a place to live?
I think this concept has to qualify as one of the most unrealistic and implausible suggestions that I have heard in ... many years. The mind boggles.
I have never threatened to give a Douglas N. Adams "Infinite Improbability Award" to anyone, but I think if I did, you'd have to be top of that list.
Well, at least within the field of Internet Technology -- I think it would be hard to beat some of the unbelievable things that some politicians have suggested, like trying to tie 9/11 to Saddam Hussein and using that lie as a pretext to war.
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