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  • From: "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: "Paul Scott" <pscott AT uwc.ac.za>
  • Cc: "cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Improved Python wrapper library
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:58:42 -0500

On 3/8/07, Paul Scott <pscott AT uwc.ac.za> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:36 -0500, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
> I've been working with a few different CC applications over the past
> month, and have realized that we have a few different ways of wrapping
> and manipulating license metadata. In some cases (such as the API and
> License Engine), we have code that does the same thing in two
> different ways. This sucks.
>

Is there a current PHP implementation of this code? If not, I would
fully be willing to take it on. Unfortunately my Python skills are
probably not up to scratch, but we use a lot of CC stuff in our code,
and this could be really useful.

There's not even a Python implementation of the code described by that
document; it's purely vapor at this point. That said, a PHP
implementation would be great. I don't have the PHP skillz to say if
this is the right sort of API for PHP. I tried to make it "Pythonic"
so it'd be natural to use in all of our existing Python projects.


Do you know what sort of testing support PHP has? One thing I really
want for the Python version is a full test suite (hence writing the
docs/tests first). I think that'd probably be desirable for a PHP
implementation, too.



Oh, and perhaps I should introduce myself - sorry!

I am Paul Scott, manager and developer of the Free Software Innovation
unit based at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South
Africa. We have coded a PHP5 based framework called Chisimba that we
have almost fully integrated the CC licence stuff into to cover almost
all aspects of the framework. All code is GPL licenced, and all of our
releases, presentations, media, courseware etc is licenced under a
CC-BY-SA licence.

Let me know if I can help out!

--Paul


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