Re: [Mldonkey-users] Contributions in C to mldonkey

[Sergio D. Bruder]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:47:41PM +0100, MLdonkey wrote:
> 
> mldonkey really suffers from its lack of developers. Since the main
> problem is that a lot of people don't know ocaml, I think there is
> still a way for them to contribute to mldonkey development: simply by
> writting C code to perform the actions they want. The only problem
> will be that:
> 
> - the C code has no access to mldonkey internals
> - the C code cannot communicate (open sockets, read/write, etc)
> 
> However, a lot of things can be performed this way: for example, a
> parser for jigle pages or sharereactor html pages could be done like that:
> 
> a structure (a C struct) containing the search would be passed to a
> first C function to generate the url to be queried:
> 
> struct search {
>   search_keywords: char*;
>   search_num : int;
> };
> 

What about python? I dont know if a ocaml/python interface is doable
or not, But python is a high level language that is much more
flexible than C for what you want to do, and have more 'audience'
than ocaml, I think.

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