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| In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> > Mine is a horrible hack crufted together to run in text mode with Curses on
> > my particular home machine,
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> If you mean that it would be virtually impossible for me to do some hacking
> of my own to get it working, or you're embarrassed to share the source, then
> fine! Otherwise, I'm still interested :P
It's not particularly bad code or anything like that, it's just that it was
an evolve-mode prototype -- didn't know Curses at all before digging in (still
don't know it well) and wasn't sure it would even end up working. It also is
still using an older undocumented pre-avid.cgi gateway to the server for its
incoming feed, so until I update that to avid.cgi, I can't release the code.
But maybe it would be a useful example client if cleaned up a bit and released
with the understanding of no little or support being offered to get it up and
running (I just haven't the time to support it).
> Yup - these are cool developments, but ideally I want something low overhead
> - Linux has started thrashing on my p166 already, and once I start up a few
> java instances it crawls even more..
What I made is pretty low-overhead -- it just uses Perl5 and the Curses.pm
Perl library and runs probably any Linux (although many of the colors are
currently hard-coded for my settings) and typically consumes about 2-4 MB of
RAM while active. Lemme think about what would be involved in making it
releaseable...
--Todd
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> until I update that to avid.cgi, I can't release the code.
> But maybe it would be a useful example client if cleaned up a bit and released
Funky!
> with the understanding of no little or support being offered to get it up and
> running (I just haven't the time to support it).
Yup - I forgot to mention that I expected no support for it :) In fact, if
someone doesn't take up the challenge before me (I couldn't justify it until
June, so it's likely they will!), it would make a good way to get a bit more
perl experience.
Richard
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