Re: [exim] Does EXIM need a new scripting language? - YES

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Author: David Saez Padros
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Does EXIM need a new scripting language? - YES

Hi !!

> OK - I want to throw out a proposal to make a major change to Exim - the
> scripting language. And before you all start screaming - the idea would
> be to leave the existing language in for compatibility.


why not just make a compiler that takes as input a more human friendly
'language' and outputs a script/configuration in current exim
'language'?

> Why do this? because the scripting is not intuitive.


the only problem i see on it is that i usually run out of variables
($acl_xx) and that complex conditions usually take several tries to
get it working, specially due to unbalanced {}

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