Sieve (was: Re: Mailutils new competitor)

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> > Doesn't GCC use yacc for it's parsing? It might be easiest to start with 
> > what they have and remove the pieces that aren't needed.
> 
> Maybe, I spent a fair while looking for a grammer for C++, and didn't
> find a good one, but C is way easier, and it never occurred to me to
> look in the gcc source. Good luck!

Well, now that you've mention it!
If someone is looking for an interesting project, probably implementing
a LGPL sieve implementation would be very nice for mailutils.
The language is not complexe and should be a good exercise to
implement with (f)lex/yacc(bison).

This is something I've been contemplating, but I'm book and my free time
is streched to the limit.

Sieve is defined in rfc3028.

> Also, for a specific project, a perl script to rip documentation out
> of the headers and into texinfo isn't out of the question.

Perl ... never.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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