Re: Of Yarn and Source Code

From: Ciaran Dunn (ciaran@dynamite.com.au)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:03:55 +1000

In article <7LaE18XCDv/T092yn@nada.kth.se>, you wrote:
>In article <WD3D14c5R+cZ092yn@dynamite.com.au>,
>ciaran@dynamite.com.au (Ciaran Dunn) wrote:
>
>>The model I was thinking of was having a core library that would
>>be GPLed, say. This core library would primarily consist of code
>>to access the various news database files and be able to all the
>>necessary functions you do when reading, writing and deleting from
>>the yarn newsbase. Then other people could come along and write
>>whatever they wanted on top of this - a better OS/2 version, a
>>linux version... whatever.
>
>Is it really worthwhile to do that? I would guess that a large part of the
>code has to to with the GUI (well, text-based "graphical" UI).
>

Yeah I think it is :) You suggest that there are two parts of a
newsreader, the gui and the brain(isnt that a cartoon). The brain
is, well, pretty boring. Its basically a bunch of functions that
access the newsbase. The UI and the specification of the newsbase
is what adds power to a newsreader.

So what Im basically suggesting we achieve is write a basic set
of(boring) newsbase access routines that people everywhere can use
to write a newsreader.

I agree with you BTW about the text support. I think it should be
possible to have Yarn for Linux with text mode(or OS/2,
windows95/NT etc). But at the same time the we shouldnt exclude
people who want a windowed version.

Cheers,
Ciaran

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