Hi everyone, Currently, there is only one newsreader for the console in the book. Slrn uses the S-Lang library for screen display. Another newsreader application is available: TIN. This uses ncurses for display management. I believe TIN should replace Slrn. Read below for some justification and references.
For reference, here are the relevant home pages for the respective projects: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ http://www.tin.org/ Reasons for preferring TIN over slrn: 1. slrn is currently broken since it was designed for use with S-Lang1, and the book is now using S-Lang2. Both a backported patch and development version are available to address this, though. See this BLFS bug here: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1845 2. Given one of the fixes in 1., TIN is much better at handling non-ASCII characters. This goes for displaying non-ASCII text as well as entering it. Follow this thread to see some testing: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2006-April/014316.html 3. TIN is actively maintained, slrn currently is not. TIN has both a stable and a development version which have been released within the past two months. slrn is mainly one person's project, Thomas Schultz, and says that he is busy now. Possibly this will clear up in the future, and he posted to the mailing list that he is planning a new release after he completes his Master's thesis. 4. Alexander has tested TIN and found it to be satisfactory. He has posted instructions on the Wiki and opened a ticket to add it to the book: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Tin http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1847 The instructions work and could basically be dropped into the book. I'm proposing dropping slrn from the book and putting in TIN. slrn could stay with a note that it has locale related issues, but it seems silly to have two console newsreaders in the book. Presently, Alexander seems to be the only person who uses one. Richard tried for a bit, prompting the slrn fixes, but now is no longer using them. Please let me know what you think. If you don't care about this issue, then I will take from your silence that the above action is OK. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
