Am 17.11.2006 um 20:36 schrieb Eric A. Hall:
Thinking about the GPL Java announcement some, and trying to
imagine the
kinds of opportunities this allows for, it occurs to me that
SpamAssassin
might be a natural fit for Java.
Why on earth do you come to that conclusion and what does Java going
GPL have anything to do with it?
I'm just thinking out loud here, not advocating anything...
At best you are speculating rather thank thinking.
Would it run better? Would it be faster, have smaller memory
footprint,
better reclamation, better hooks for plugins etc? OTOH, would it be
harder
to build, given the dependence of SA on perl modules?
Please do some research on progam languages and domains because one
size almost never fits all. While I personally very much dislike
perl, it is extremely well-suited to this task: text-centric, rapidly
changing. SA was the first out there, has a large body of active
developers and is extensible by rules.
Charlie
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