🚀 go-pugleaf

A few weeks ago, someone posted an article subjected
Source control wanted,
and last events seemed to me to underline that.

While Newsgrazer was (and still is, for some sites) unusable, the others
are still in fine shape, namely gnus, trn, and (with caution) tin.
And who knows, now that the word is out, if the situation will change..

In the case of tin, there also is a problem but it still works
if handled cautiously, and, since I and/or others out in netland
are sure to have submitted a bug report to the author, I am rather
confident that in short time there will be a patch out.

I think that NewsGrazer, while it implements some fine ideas which
I did not find in other newsreaders, still lacks some other
features, like threaded discussion trees which trn is best at, and
must in the whole be considered unfinished. The ongoing discussions
are an indicator.

I really think that Source control is (some) reason that the free
programs are in the fine shape they are today.

TeX is, I think, one master example for this, where many, many
people submitted bug reports *and fix proposals* over the years.
The Gnu software may serve for another example.

(Of course exceptions both ways. F.ex Emacs front end, without source.
 I use it heavily since it is very convenient with mouse, and never had
 a trouble)

At that, I am very pleased about how well NeXT and the free programs
rub along. In the first place, NeXT relied on the free world in taking
gnu software. Then, mostly, compiling any source does not pose problems,
and during the last half year, I watched the machine "NeXT" emerge
in a lot of make files so that it seems to me that the free world
also has accepted the NeXT.

I would very much like to see this trend continued.

--mahilata