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From:
brian moseley
Date:
November 7, 2001 14:51
Subject:
top five
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.33.0111080904480.27391-100000@buddha.nirvana.kilda.st

if you're like me, you're thinking: "i might like to help,
but i'm not sure what would be most useful or where my time
would be well spent at this point."

suggestion: everybody make a top five list of
projects/components/apis that you'd like to see this group
make happen. here's mine:

1) a good unified mail client api (single namespace,
consistent docs and naming), likely incorporating
MIME-tools, Mail::Folder, Mail::Send, etc, with imap, pop3
and smtp support, as well as local storage and retrieval
(mbox, maildir, sendmail, etc); possibly also including an
interface for filter rule construction, supporting sieve,
procmail, etc.

2) a naming and directory api that lets me use the same
interface to access objects stored in memory, in an ldap
directory, on a soap server, on a webdav server, distributed
with corba, or in a file on the local filesystem; or any
combination thereof

3) a uniform authen/authz api that knows about users and
groups and domains, handles credential types such as
username/password and client cert, supports multiple
password hashing/encryption schemes, and allows pluggable
data sources, possibly different for authen and authz.

4) dare i say it: web application specifications (as an
author of a p5ee-enabled web application, i can expect my
environment to provide services x, y and z)

5) a comprehensive, high level, easy to use locale api that
works for all supported versions of perl. not a random
assortment of I18N:: modules, but a consistent oo api that
is directly supported by all higher level p5ee apis and
components.


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