🚀 go-pugleaf

Previously John Washington <john@wash.demon.co.uk> said:
>On Saturday, in article
>     <Snews.960727.045510.chris.317@keris.demon.co.uk>
>     chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:
>CC> Since the code works at the moment, how about replacing all 'int32'
>CC> declarations with 'uint32', and then setting that one to the proper
>Or 'suint32' (for signedness unknown) and then you can gradually
>change to uint32 or int32 as you investigate individual declns.
>But my main reason for chipping in is to say how depressed I
>feel, seeing this kind of good work happening on diverging
>ka9q sources.  I'm especially sad that all the good work
>Gordon did, including saving hunks of memory and using ansi
>prototypes, hasn't found its way back to the DOS source.

I don't know if the version I'm playing with will ever
become an official demon version, but on the off chance
that it might would people like it to use ansi colours etc
for display??

What would people like to see in it?

The version I've got vaguely working at the moment has
the capability for numerous extra servers a user maint bit
and all sorts of other mods I've forgotten about and is very
heavily based on the jnos code.

To be precise it's jnos bashed around to work as much as possible
with origional demon setups, without loosing too much of the nice
bit's of jnos.

>Of course, wishes are the easy bit.  It needs someone to put
>in the work to do this.
>Yet I believe that finding a volunteer wouldn't be
>difficult, provided that a firm timescale is laid down and a
>commitment to make a new release using that effort.  I feel
>that all of the DOS software (ka9q, snews, dis..) is
>suffering mainly because of vagueness in this.
>If other developers feel as I do, Demon is wasting a lot of
>talent and goodwill.

I'd agree with this, but my development work is very much
of a personel project, I'm not a developer just rather
good at cut and paste.

>A much better solution would be for Demon to hire a part- or
>full-time teleworker, unfettered by the day-to-day hectic
>life at Finchley, to produce and/or coordinate new revisions
>of the DOS software.

I'm not actually in finchley, but a hectic day ion southend
isn't that different, and again I'm in support rather than
the developmenty side of things.
--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
         "Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend"