Thomas Thurman writes ("Packaging an RGTP server and client"):
> There is a bulletin board system at Cambridge University called GROGGS[1].
> Since 1995 it has used a TCP protocol called RGTP[2], which also finds
> limited use at a few other sites. Various pieces of software related to
> RGTP exist. I maintain two of these: "yarrow", a web client for RGTP,
> and "spurge", a fairly simple RGTP server. spurge is not the RGTP server
> used on GROGGS itself.Why not package the GROGGS RGTP server ? [1] > It has occasionally been suggested to me that I should package these two. If it has been suggested by people who would like to install the packages via Debian then surely yes. They probably want to be in "extra". > Before I even consider this, I wondered what people thought about > their general usefulness. Together they provide a bare-bones web bulletin > board system, but there are many others. The existence of a > client-independent protocol is perhaps a small bonus. But it's > not as though there had been a massive take-up of RGTP outside > a few Cambridge people. This bulletin board system is not a web bbs; it's a plain text BBS with a web UI. I think that's a significantly different offering to most other web BBSs. > (For completeness, I should mention that other RGTP clients have already > been debianised but are not included in Debian's catalogue, notably > greed[3].) Perhaps we should have a complete RGTP kit. [1] Declaration of interest: I was the original author of the RGTP protocol spec and the reference implementation used on GROGGS. Thomas knows this I'm sure. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
