Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:27:46 +0100:
> As you suggest, perhaps we could have full binary posting in Pan in 2.0. > But is there sense in "reinventing the wheel"? Couldn't Pan just use > newspost? Well, consider that pan is a program already accessing the news server in its own right. As such, it has already implemented a lot of the necessary code including all the networking code to do its own attachments to the text posts already possible. It therefore makes little sense for it to act as a news-post front-end, as implementing the GUI for that would be just as much work as implementing its own GUI and encoding, but being able to do it pan's own way. It's different for the previously mentioned dedicated front-ends, of course, as that's /all/ they are, is front-ends. They don't have all the rest of the infrastructure already implemented, as pan does. Of course for me as a scripter, the difference is even bigger. Certainly, there are python or perl or the like libraries I could integrate, but that'd likely be less efficient than front-ending a purpose-built application. (BTW, I tried learning perl but the "more than one way to do it" philosophy didn't work so well for me learning on my own anyway. I've a goal to try python next but have been sitting on the books for awhile, finding other stuff, like learning kdialog and bashing out shell scripts with it, to do instead. =8^) In the case of pan-attach, I already knew the purpose-built (for news) application, tho I did have to learn the kdialog and do a bit of research to find uudeview and learn it. In the case of newspost, I'll already know kdialog, and I already what the other app is, newspost, tho I'll have to learn how its command line works in ordered to script it properly. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
