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- -- Future Improvements --
-
- The whole program needs to be re-written (again). Mcp's development
- was driven by need, rather than any concrete design specifications
- and it shows. Here are a few of the local outcries.
-
- 1. Allow default login names to be chiseled from the real names
- by a set of rewriting rules, much in the way that sendmail rewrites
- addresses. This would be much better than inflicting ODU'isms
- on other sites.
-
- 2. Get rid of the hard coded cryos, deadbeats and inactives in favor
- of a more generalized database retrieval system.
-
- 3. A facility to log who made what changes while using mcp (maybe).
- I see no real use for such a feature except to facilitate finger-pointing
- when accounts vanish. Nonetheless, such a feature was suggested and
- if this is suggested often enough, it will be implemented.
-
- 4. Have mcp use /etc/termcap instead of making assumptions about
- the few(?) capabilities that it uses (maybe).
-
- 5. Junk or rewrite the internal help facilities (probably). I can't
- accurately judge their usefulness since I know what mcp's going to
- do.
-