On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, David Sewell wrote: >With the (relative) burst of traffic on this mailing list, I thought I'd >ask folks the question in the message subject. slrn is the one that does scoring right? If someone would give a fairly high level compare/contrast between slrn and trn in this thread, it'd be nice. (I realize it'd likely be biased towards trn, just like asking tivo vs replaytv is biased in each particular system's newsgroup!) If I'm right about scoring -- basically I have never needed the scoring feature. I like trn because, especially when I transferred, it was a superset of rn. (I presume slrn is that too.) Heck, I am pretty sure I didn't even read articles threaded at first.. I just liked getting away from message #s. (Nowadays I'm even reading email threaded with pine -- I hate the fact that for my ~2200 message INBOX it takes a significant time to sort upon startup -- but it's still faster than most other email programs..) So basically -- I guess trn was the first newsreader after rn that I used significantly that had new features and wasn't a huge change interfacewise, unless I wanted it. Things I wish trn had, in no particular order: * Better makefiles/build rules. I got trn compiled on Mac OS X a few years ago, but I remember it was a huge pain... I don't know how much work it would be to do again (I noticed others have mentioned newer trns than what I'm using). Even before pine had osx makefiles built in, it was fairly simple.. Now it's "./build osx". * Simpler configuration. I know there's the & options screen, but AFAIK, you can't configure everything there.. (such as the FROM question I asked the other day.) pine is a great example here too -- "GUI-like" configuration for the vast majority of options. (I think for some really really esoteric/hackish things, you have to modify dotfiles.) * Better documentation -- maybe this exists, I dunno.. I remember having to ask about the "tree thing" a while ago. I still don't use it, but a good description of all of the features/how people use them would be great. Also, shouldn't trn 4.0 go "final" some eon? Can't some half-finished features be removed or documented that way or somesuch? We've been using it for years and years and years.. It'd be nice just to say it's 4.0 final.. >I try out slrn every now and then but never seem to get captivated by >it. It doesn't seem to have the lightning-fast ability to select, I do like that trn is very very fast.. that's my first criteria usually -- but just like with rn -> trn, vi -> vim, mail -> pine, I'm willing to give up _some_ speed for UI and features... but not much.. and usually they're a superset of the previous program. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp
