Re: [Woody-devel] thank you's, DTDs and more!

[Paul M F. <pa...@qu...>]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:10:11PM -0600, Scott Scriven wrote:

> * peter <pe...@me...> wrote:
> 
> > a pitty, since I rather liked it on the console where I happen
> > to do most of my work (Mutt, etc.). but of course GUIs are
> > more attractive (for most people) and probably less of a pain
> > to implement (?) given the vast choice of tools.
> 
> Yes, I like the console version too.
> 
> It will still be entirely possible to make a curses driver for
> woody.  But implementing each driver requires rewriting about
> half the program.  Unless I made a gtk-like API for curses,
> which would take even more code.
> 
> Maybe woody should split, so there is the original console
> version and the newer gui version.  The current release works
> just fine for what it does.
> 

FWIW, I'm a fan of the console version as well. I avoid X like the
plague, and this is a nice application that does what I need.

In any case, advance notice (close to the time when it actually occurs)
of dropping the curses interface would be nice.

Paul