Changing the models

[nitin7]

@dgoldman-ebay @josharian
Regarding issue #50, I was wondering if the Python library and scripts needed to generate/modify models were ever going to documented and released in the future. Given that more cards with non-embossed digits and various digit patterns are cropping up, it would great if developers were allowed to make the models more inclusive of those changes.

[dgoldman-pdx]

@nitin7 that's a very reasonable question.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that I (who am no longer working for PayPal) am not able to devote any time to dealing with this. 😿

There's a rather big collection of somewhat idiosyncratic scripts (especially idiosyncratic after I took them over from the much neater @josharian), which would need to be cleaned up, refactored, and heavily documented.

(They're also closely tied to a database of images of actual credit cards, which cannot be shared publicly.)

[nitin7]

Thanks Dave. I think folks in the open source world can figure out and clean up those scripts, that's the beauty of open source. Of course, the card images should remain closed. Who at PayPal or former card.io folks do you think might be able to help? Maybe Tom Whipple or Brent Fitzgerald?