brad was working on Brackup and in the comments of his LJ someone mentioned that a Gmail target would be cool.

Python has had an extension that lets it access Gmail including storing files on there (using a certain amount of trickery) which someone used, along with FUSE to create a Gmail File System

Perl had no such ability to store and retrieve ( Read more... )

In a shock development I actually have a user for Bot::Infobot and, as luck would have it, they're not using the DBI backend which meant I had to go rooting around trying to make the importer work with both the DBI and the DBM backend.

I had high hopes for DBD::DBM except ... it failed dismally, I think because the columns were specifed (although ( Read more... )

I finally got round to releasing Bot::Infobot after updating the import script. I really should move dipsy over to using the new backend and also to fixing my broken plugin distros which, despite being unbelievably simple, I've managed to fuck up.

I should install a stock Infobot and play around with importing from the non-db backend.