Dne Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:16:14 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal:
> Ok, but what should these ports include? Making one straight over from DOS
> InSight isn't hard at all - but it will not work since Arachne for Linux
Well, open source development is about original author not being
"director of universe" - it depends on what author of port preferers!
If it is straightforward port, than full functionaliy has to wait for
SMTP/POP3 in Arachne. I would prefere Insight to access
/var/spool/mail/username files, and Arachne for Linux would simply
call fetchmail to get POP3 mail... simple and upgradable solution.
> doesn't download mail (or does it do that now?). Additonally what about
> implementing "cid:"? If person A rewrites InSight and person B implements
> "cid:" the versions between the OS will not be the same (just like if only
> person A works on it and includes cid: in the Linux version).
cid: is not very hard at all. There are two ways how to do this:
Insight can directly modify cache.idx file as one option, adding
cid: records to it, or even more siple solution would be simple text
file with hash-table of lines like: ID <space> filename. First will
take about 10 minutes to add to Arachne, 2nd maybe one hour, or so ;)
> Secondly WWWMAN is almost ported already (and has been since the first
> Linux release, or was it even before?) - was it file://*.extension that was
> missing or was it file://*.* ? The person in question is on this list last
> I checked so he's free to chime in anytime he wants on how it's
> progressing... ;-)
Ok, so why nobody has sent me copy of ported WWWMAN ? ;-)
> That reminds me, I was the one that should have told you Michael, sorry...
> also there's a small bug when it comes to accessing some ftp-servers (now
> what server was it that presented the information backwards? "Anonymous"
> can perhaps answer that one as well since I can't remember it).
Someone reported FTP upload bug (?). I haven't tested or touched FTP
for ages.
> And perhaps most important I think that a note on how comments should be
> made should be added to the source zip file (I assume it's the same way
> that we that have the source for core.exe are supposed to do).
I think comments should be made, the problem that usually they are not
made ;-) Myself, I like C++ style single-line // ... comments, although
they are theoreticaly not valid in C code... I am not so very picky about
source formating, unless it doesn't include more commands on
single line, like Insight source code, which is terrible ;)
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