--- In [email protected], Nick <canall...@...> wrote: > > Allan Cazaly wrote: > > > I have just checked my two links for Canal Planner. > > One link doesn't seem to work but this address does: > > > > <http://canalplan.tty.org.uk/cgi-bin/canal.cgi> > > > > It worked for me this morning (14th) > > > > Hope this helps, ~Allan~ PS:(Please confirm if you are successful). I need > > to know for inclusion in my Information Canal Book - Thanks! > > Here's the definitive - right from the horses mouth as it were - statement. > > Firstly, and vitally, although they resolve into other things, please > always use the main domain addresses for CanalPlanAC. That's > "canalplan.org.uk" and "canalplan.eu". You'll find that at the moment > they both give you the same thing (more on that later). > > The first of those - canalplan.org.uk - will point to the best version > available at the moment. This has been the version you all know > (version 8). However that version is almost impossible to maintain. > > The second - canalplan.eu - will point you to a hopefully fairly stable > but more experimental release of the new version (version 9). This is > much better structured, uses a real database, and can do a lot of things > that version 8 can't (including - hence the name - supporting waterways > outside mainland England: there aren't any in yet, but work is going in > that direction) but can't quite do everything that version 8 can, > particularly as regards maps. It's a much more modern layout, much > more configurable and interactive, and is designed so that it can fairly > easily be translated into other languages and given a skin for mobile > devices. > > That's being work on and when I think that this is the best version - > which is not that far in the future - then version 8 will be retired. > At that stage I'll make a decision as to whether to still have a "stable > release" and "development" versions or whether to just have the one. > > Note that I'm talking about versions of the software here. There is the > then the question of the machine that runs them. These are currently > hosted on different machines. At the time of writing the machine that > hosts version 8 is down, and so I've redirected both addresses to point > at the machine running version 9. That's a very good reason why you > should use the "canalplan.org.uk" and "canalplan.eu" URLs to find them - > not the URLs on the machines that are hosting them. That lets me move > them around, cope with system downtime etc. > > To return to the original question about the downloadable version, > however, I produced it after a lot of public pressure, but never really > liked it. One problem was that I was constantly having to deal with > installation problems and - of course - I'm always having to chase the > latest version of Windows. That's not what I want to do in my (limited) > free time - I'd rather put the effort into making the application better. > > I don't even have a machine running Windows in the house, so a new > version is highly unlikely. Sorry! > > I'm still actively developing CanalPlan - you can see the way it's going > at canalplan.eu - but it's going to be as an entirely on-line > application from now on. The development one gets a fair bit of testing > on mobile devices, and I'm really interested in your thoughts as to how > to make it work best on them. > > Hope this helps - I'll keep looking here for comments. Feel free to > copy and post any of this information anywhere you see people asking - I > can't keep up with all the waterways information sources these days! > > Nick > ******* Good Morning Nick,
Thank you for your "quick" response to my message on your "Fantastic" Canal Planner. I will update my draft book to <www.canalplan.eu> I wish I knew more about programming, I find your "various" addresses leading one to the same destination quite fascinating! At 75, I guess I will probably never attain that level of understanding now! Regards, ~Allan~
