[Mailman-Developers] Database API

Chuq Von Rospach chuqui@plaidworks.com
Tue, 1 Aug 2000 22:11:07 -0700


At 1:40 PM -0700 8/1/00, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:

>The big thing I can think of would be to add in backend support into
>pipermail.  It would be neat to be able to store archives in a database.
>
><mode="wishful thinking">

basically, every module should be an API, so that anything you want 
to do, you do by writing an interface to the API. You'd no longer 
have a pipermail interface, but an archive API, which can be called 
0...N times, one for each instance of an archive. Ditto 
subscriptions, ditto everything else....

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