Re: Yarn source code

From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 15:54:16 -0400

>I would like source for 0.89 -- I wonder if this is available? I
>might be interested in a port for Linux, if its not too bad -- or I
>might be interested in working on such a thing because I have not
>found anything in Linux which does yarn's job in as good a way as yarn
>does.
>

Just a small question to provoke discussion...

Why would you want to port the yarn code to Linux? Why not to something more
attune to the Internet as a whole and do it in java? I for one, have been
slaving away, trying to write my own version of Yarn in java and it's been
quite a task. Just figuring out the file structures is a pain... Let alone
finding the free time to do it. It's hard going back to a project, after a
long spell away from it...

But having the Yarn source code to "read as you write" would be a blessing. And
writing to the JVM would be a bigger blessing for all of us, not just a few
specific platforms...

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