Re: [leafnode-list] Web administration - leafwa

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy Piper <andy.piper@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Basically, for leafwa to work managing the news queue in its current
> form, it relies heavily on the exact output of the newsq program, so it
> would be nice if the layout of that ouput was the same in 1.9.x and
> 2.x. I've not moved to 2.x myself yet, so I don't know if there are
> other issues.

Well, one or the other configuration option has also changed, the filter
file format is different -- these are things that leafwa would have to
know about.

> Building anything like this is always going to depend on the development
> of the program(s) the front-end is using.

I am herewith offering a "-P" switch for newsq to print machine-parsable
output. I'm totally unaware of leafwa (never used it myself), so I'm not
sure if the "failed" and "active" queue (and the "incoming" in 2.x) will
be presented at the same time, so I'd suggest a -Px switch, where x is
i, o, f for incoming, outgoing, failed queue, and I'd have no banners
and no "empty" queue, and I'd precede the lines with the full header
name -- From:, Subject:, Newsgroups: -- does this sound useful?

> I guess in many ways it would be nicer to build PHP classes which
> interacted with leafnode's data files directly, and dig around in the
> spool directory.

That's going to become difficult with leafnode 2 because I'm
encapsulating the spool there, because I plan to make some optimizations
to the spool structure and move away from traditional spool. I won't be
able to do that if external tools rely on my internal work.

> AFAICT leafwa was really aimed at leafnode 2.x in the first place, since
> it includes local groups management (for example). I may be attempting
> to fit it onto my 1.9.27 install for no good reason other than the fact
> that *I* would like that to work. Attempting to maintain it for two
> different versions of leafnode may be cumbersome; perhaps I should move
> to 2.x, and long-term I will, but I'd like to work with something solid
> to start with :-)

If you'd ask me, I'd appreciate if leafwa could cope with leafnode
1.9.27 as well.

-- 
Matthias Andree

http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/   - leafnode-1 tarballs
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/beta/ - leafnode-2 tarballs

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