[tube-discuss] Server side

[Pascal H. <a.h...@ch...>]

Salutations all,

I've got some good news and some bad news. 

The bad news is that Tube will never make the 1 June deadline that I
promised for Tube 1.0b3 / 1.0. The new target is to deliver between the 14th
and the 21st of June.

The good news is that I got so bored finding and fixing bugs in Tube that I
wrote a Hotline server last night. Good news? Yes, good news, because to
write the server I had to scrutinize the Hotline protocol code that
underlies Tube, and this in turn lead me to uncover a number of hidden bugs
and subtle breakages that would have otherwise surely slipped my mind and
ruined your day.

So you see, the moral of the story is to just never do something you don't
enjoy. At least that is what I hope the moral is.

In any case, this means that Tube now finally has a Hotline home (most of
the time at least). The server is still very spartan, with the only thing
you can do being chat. But if you fancy some smalltalk, or just wanna say
hi, don't be shy, and point your Tube or "brand X" Hotline client to
host awacs.dhs.org, port 5500.

The code for the server --if you're that kind of person-- is in CVS, as
always at:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tube/groomed/hotline

Finally, let it be known that the first three people to log in will receive
an authentic Amsterdam bottle containing authentic Amsterdam beer (if I'm
not in, send me an email with the time / date + IP address of your login,
and I'll get back to you) -- I promise you, spam never tasted this good!

Cheers,