On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:48:39AM -0800, Booker Bense wrote: > 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. mutt can do NNTP as well; there are patches out there. > > 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. It's very easy if you've already got CVS access, which I do. Lars, drop me a mail and I'll send you the tarball. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com
