----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] u.org] On Behalf Of Charles Kerr Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 16:07 To: pan-users@nongnu.org Cc: pan-devel@nongnu.org Subject: [Pan-users] Coming April 1: Pan 0.90
> I've kept mum on this for a /long/ time because I didn't know > when I'd have it ready, but here's a nice April Fool's gift > for you... :) > > cheers, > Charles > ====================================================================== > > Pan 0.90 is the first beta of a ground-up rewrite of Pan in C++. > > Some of the best user-visible improvements: > > * The memory footprint for large newsgroups has been cut by 2/3. > (A month's worth of headers in a sample binaries group dropped > from 283M to 94M.) > > * The time to download headers has been cut by 2/3 by parallelizing > the download across multiple conections to the server. (In the same > sample group, downloading a months' worth of headers dropped from > 17 minutes to 5 minutes.) > > * The time to load large newsgroups from disk has been cut by 90%. > (In the same sample newsgroup, the time to load from disk > dropped from 14 seconds to 1.3 seconds.) > > * Multiserver support. Pan can now download files in parallel -- > not just with multiple connections to the same server, but also > to multiple servers. > > * NZB support. Pan can now import NZB files. It can also be started > in an NZB client mode that doesn't create the newsreader window at > all. > > * The entire user interface has been redesigned and rewritten to > use fresh gtk goodness. > > > Some of the best backend improvements: > > * The source code's line count dropped from 44,382 to 22,281 - and is > far cleaner. > > * Fewer library prerequisites: Pan no longer requires GNet or libxml2. > > * Better decoupling has made possible unit tests that were impossible > before, such as mocking up a news server session to test > tasks running > in the queue. > > * The task and application layers are separated from the backend, > so a database backend can be added later if desired. > Yippee. I hope a Windows version follows in the not too distant future. Thank you. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
