RE: Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] hello.... *newbie*

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, _m0ren0 _ wrote:

> you haven't released a wwwboard ??  i thought i downloaded one... ???
> though it didn't seem much better than the original... hmmm... ??  i

This is the reason that we haven't made an *official* release of wwwboard
- its there in the CVS and so forth but it still sucks badly and I don't
think anyone would be happy to put their name to it right now :)

> have lotsa them lying around in various incarnations, but ur whole
> "gotta plug-in to matts" policy may get in the way there.  kinda stoopid
> if ya ask me. but, are there any plans to develop new programs when all
> the re-writing is done ??
>

It might seem like an absurd constraint being backward compatible with the
existing programs but if we are going to tackle the installed base of CGI
programs we are going to have to continue with this, much the same as we
aim to work for a vanilla 5.004.04 installation.

> i noticed u were havin probs with documentation.  i'm pretty shitty at
> that kinda stuff (not that i claim to be a perl guru either), but i am
> willing to help out anywhere i could be of any help.
>

We would love help with the documentation - all of the README files are
going to have to be rewritten, mostly the required information can be
found in the comments in the code.

> and concerning the usefulness of mailing lists... why would it be easier
> to get email than connect to the web ?  or am i just being dumb ?
>

I can download hundreds of e-mails and then disconnect from the network,
read them and make replies and then at some point of my choosing I can
reconnect to the network and the replies will be transmitted.  This
doesn't work with web based messaging.

/J\
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