On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Lars J. Aas wrote: > Booker Bense <bbense@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > : - Every now and then I'm tempted to switch to using GNUS mode in > : emacs, but I've got way to many trn commands hardwired in my > : hands. I hear good things about mutt if you want to go the combo > : news/mail route. > > Mutt does news? _ No that's my mistake, I was confusing mutt and slrn, since they both use s-lang. > : > : - Trn is basically abandonware at this point, I don't think anybody's > : seriously hacked at it in the last 8 years. If you want all these support > : things you'll either have to organize them yourself or pick a more supported > : news reader. > > I'm *this* close to cleaning up/modernizing the trn repository. I don't have > write access to the repository though, so that makes it that much harder. > I want to move to autoconf/automake, and move the source files into a subdir > and whichever other cleanups I see fit... > > Moving files with cvs causes you to lose their history unless you do it on > the repository side. If I could therefore get a tarball of the repository > files and work on that instead of on a cvs checkout, I would be a lot more > motivated to do the work, and I could set it up separately at cvs.coin3d.org > for those who want to see/comment on the progress. It would just be a fork > until the trn-developers agreed that the new setup was complete and superior > to the existing one and then move/migrate it back... _ At this point there are no trn developers. I suspect if you sent Wayne a private message, he'd be glad to at least give you a copy of the cvs files to start a fork. I've heard rumors that getting these out of sourceforge is not the easiest thing to do though. > > The current build system is actually keeping me from looking at the trn > sources too much because I want to avoid having to go through the configuration > process again to make a new build ;)... > _ Well, if I was interested in hacking on curses based news readers, I'd be looking at languages like ruby, python or perl. Computers are fast enough now, that an interpreted language would be a much faster development environment. Reading news is more or less string munging and there are a lot of languages that do that better than C. Anyway, good luck... _ Booker C. Bense ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com
