Thank you for this thoughtful analysis. All of your
points are well made and well taken.
I realize I was whining, but Charles should probably
take it as a sign of the level of interest in Pan, if
he's reading. It's the program no one bitches about
that no one is actually using.
No, I wasn't actively using the beta and providing
feedback I'm sorry - I have largely stuck with old
Pan, pretty much because of the stability and the
aforementioned features.
I know some C, Perl etc but am a C++ novice at this
stage, though I intend to try some more of it, but am
not at the stage to offer myself as a contributor, or
I would try my hand at some patches to add in those
features.
So much work appears to have into Pan, it would be a
pity to see it stall when it seems quite close to
competing with the Win clients. But projects do
stall, even my own little ones.
Of course, I don't know why the Win people writing
free newsreaders don't port their code to linux.
Borland Delphi is basically Pascal - I don't know how
hard it would be for Lu Tran to port XNews to linux
but I imagine it's entirely possible.
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