[Calendarserver-discuss] imip-agent 0.2 (iMIP capabilities for mail servers)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Paul Boddie (2017-01-31 13:29:15)
> Just replying again to give some progress updates...

Appreciated!

> On Friday 27. January 2017 16.36.43 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Paul Boddie (2017-01-27 13:25:38)
> > > On Friday 27. January 2017 11.11.46 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > [Python modules symlinked from /etc] is unusual but not sure it 
> > > > is outright wrong in debian: It triggers a warning about scripts 
> > > > below /etc due to the hashbang of the file...
> > > 
> > > I would be interested to know about alternatives that work. My 
> > > only previous experience with Debian packaging and things in /etc 
> > > was for Kolab, where various PHP settings files lived in 
> > > /etc/kolab (and maybe a directory for Roundcube as well).
> > 
> > Please - I am allergic to PHP... ;-)
> 
> Me too, practically, but it was the presence of files in /etc/kolab 
> that was of interest.
> 
> What I've done now is to make my own configuration file a text file 
> (config.txt) that just happens to have Python syntax and that gets 
> loaded and parsed by the config module (config.py), which can now live 
> in the appropriate place and not need to be symlinked to. This doesn't 
> even use the run-time evaluation support in Python: it uses the Python 
> parser to recognise settings and to define them in a 
> dictionary/hashtable/mapping.
> 
> So, this avoids putting importable modules in /etc and that hashbang 
> warning.

Sounds nice.


> > Perhaps look at how Radicale handles plugins: It seems to me that it 
> > supports _either_ probing (touching multiple files - although here 
> > with only "files" and "SQL" I cannot imagine it being very 
> > expensive) or explicitly declared choice.
> 
> Well, Radicale's plug-in mechanism, which was the other problem, uses 
> Python's __import__ built-in. I'm not really a big fan of that, but if 
> there's no other acceptable alternative, I guess I could use something 
> similar.

I do not reject your current approach - only questioned if possibly 
(read: agreeable to your programming style) to do it more elegantly.

 - Jonas

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