Well, it is an open source project. Unfortunately, it's currently written in a different language *cough*python*cough*, so I can't imagine getting help from anyone here. To tell you the truth, my whole open source experience has been frustrating. I've received really no help, but many requests for this capability and others. One guy wanted to be able to upload images. I don't know if I'm just bitching right now or not, but frankly this thing has done as much as I really care for it to do. The whole "defining types" problem isn't really a problem to me. I more or less figured that people would download this and if they wanted different features, they would take the time to hack them themselves. I'd like for it to be able to do such neat things, but I'm not trying to fool anyone, I'm not a _real_ programmer, I'm a SysAdmin. :)

Part of the reason that I'm asking about this here is this, I originally did this in Python for 2 reasons, first to learn it, second because I figured it would be an easier language for people to hack on. Number one is done, I learned it (enough for me at least), and number two is worthless if nobody is hacking it. Perl has _many_ more modules and people using it, so I'm thinking why not rewrite it in perl where I don't have to reinvent the wheel quite so often and I have more chance of getting people involved. I need to rethink my architecture in the process though and that's where I'm at now. I dread the thought of having to take time out to learn XML, I assume DTD's would be the way to go for this, but I don't know enough about it to be sure. 4,500 lines of code down the drain.... oi veh

In reply to RE: Re: expect users to program or define a simple definition language? by BastardOperator
in thread expect users to program or define a simple definition language? by BastardOperator

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