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Re: Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:08:54 GMT
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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,

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

   
         
   
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Re: Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:08:38 GMT
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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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