Am 07.04.2009 um 05:00 schrieb Greg Hellings:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM, DM Smith <[email protected]>
wrote:
Matthew Talbert wrote:
Folks, I don't appreciate this. I never intended to imply that
Jonathon's patches wouldn't be welcome. I was simply quoting what I
assumed to be CrossWire policy. "Making a high barrier of entry" is
mentioned quite a few times. Could someone please explain why this
isn't CrossWire policy? Or why people are saying it if it isn'?
From my perspective, it is not CrossWire's policy. I have spent
quite a bit
of time documenting the conf, OSIS and osis2mod. All on the wiki. I
want to
make it easier to create modules.
WRT tei2mod, I wrote it. Chris enhanced it. It is a rather braindead
program, looking for start and end of entries. One thing that it
does, it
recommends conf entries based on the module it creates. I plan to
change
osis2mod to do this later.
The suggestion to have the "main" be separated from the code is a
good one.
If someone would like to step up to it, we want to have a web based
module
creation facility.
Fill out a form, submit an OSIS or TEI file and get a module back.
Any takers?
I have found great joy in coding web-based utilities of late. I would
be more than happy to tackle this... however, it seems that it would
be a perfect time to have the functions pulled into the library and
accessible via whichever wrapping language the SWORD library currently
exposes (Is PHP or another active web language one of those options?).
I'm also currently working on some PHP web files to manipulate
modules in other ways, so this would be a natural outgrowth of that
task. I suppose, if the language used is configured properly, I can
execute a shell command against the uploaded file, but that would be
less than ideal from a security standpoint, though preferable from an
execution speed vantage.
Obviously I'll need lots of guidance from the experienced module
experts and also from people deciding what language it needs to be in,
what options it ought to take and what sort of limits should be
imposed (max upload size, etc).
Word of caution: I am as far from a graphical designer as ever there
was, so its layout will be positively ugly and minimalistic when I get
my hands on it.
I would help setting this up.
However I have experience and would do it in Java, JSP with some
business logic to call the executables with appropriate parameters
passed from the web page.
I think we already have a Tomcat server running?
Getting something work can be done quickly I think making it nice
looking can be done at a later stage in my opinion.
Manfred
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