[bop-devel] Python gateway module

[Ivan Kohler]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:22:42AM -0300, David Pratt wrote:
> Hi Ivan. I am happy to hear from you after a few months :-)  I don't 
> think these ideas are too pie in the sky at all but more of an 
> evolution. I am involved in a couple of e-commerce projects on different 
> python frameworks and I believe something like this is long overdue.
> 
> If you are game, I'd like to see if there are perhaps a couple of other 
> folks on the python side I could stir up to get our heads together with 
> you (and any other interested folks). It would be great see if we can 
> formulate something meaningful. I think XML would be the way to go with 
> this personally.

I don't have a huge amount of time to devote to such an effort, but I of 
course would like to be involved.  Personally I would choose YAML over 
XML as the magic fairy dust quotient seems to be way lower, human 
readability seems to be way higher, and we can always easily transform 
to XML programmatically.  But I don't really care all that much.

-- 
_ivan


> Ivan Kohler wrote:
> >On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:10:56PM -0300, David Pratt wrote:
> >>Hi. I am interested in developing a generic python package for payment 
> >>gateways and hoping to learn from you have already done in perl. Do you 
> >>have a cvs or svn repository that I can browse.
> >
> >Lots of modules are in my repository at
> >http://420.am/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
> >
> >Many others are available only on CPAN.
> >
> >Some pie-in-the-sky thoughts: 
> >
> >It would be really interesting to work towards having a central, 
> >language-neutral repository that contains descriptions of payment 
> >gateways - probably something like XML/YAML, even though I'm not a True 
> >Believer.  Tt would be great to get to the point someday where all that 
> >needed to be written was a generic "gateway description" and the 
> >interfaces in Perl, Python, etc. would all then be available.