Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-06-03 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:09:44PM -0400, Dossy wrote: On 2004.06.01, Francesco P. Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from your Debian GNU/Linux AOLserver series maintainer. Your great news are welcome. Thanks, Frankie! I added a couple of patches which are required to have a

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-06-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Greetings from your Debian GNU/Linux AOLserver series maintainer. Your great news are welcome. On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:52:47PM -0400, Dossy wrote: 3) SourceForge bug and support trackers There are currently 56 open bugs, 3 open support requests, 29 open patches and 8 open feature

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-24 Thread Nathan Folkman
Thanks Jeff! I'll try and post something to this list by then end of the week. - Nathan Jeff Hobbs wrote on 5/21/2004, 5:14 PM: We would be willing to add to our docs whatever is necessary to clearly indicate to users how to use it specifically with AOLServer. -- AOLserver -

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-22 Thread Bernd Eidenschink
Hi Talli, bah. i'm sick of the we need php/python/brainfuck in AOLserver to be successful and gain mindshare. hm. it was a discussion about strategy (the focus). Of course it's easier to abort that discussion and directly start with graphic design and IA. And when it comes to the marketing

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Tomasz Kosiak
Dossy wrote: Yes, I definitely plan to communicate with the AOLserver Community as to what is going on, what plans are being made, what our progress is towards the goals set forth in the roadmap, upcoming releases, and so on. I welcome anyone to call me on this if they feel that there are

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Daniël Mantione
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Dossy wrote: 1) www.aolserver.com website revamp The project website deserves a more modern look and feel while maintaining the crisp, clean design aspects of the site. The site needs to clearly represent the most current releases and recent changes.

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Bernd Eidenschink
- It's not L.A.M.P. People are sceptical to changes of the way of doing things and often act like sheep. and Clearly AOLservers biggest competitor is PHP. Were the current website falls short is to explain why people need to choose AOLserver over Apache/PHP. I.e.: PHP works with

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Daniël Mantione
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bernd Eidenschink wrote: PHP works with AOLserver, at least some folks use it. I don't know how well maintained the bridge ist, nor if PHP can be compiled with 4.0, but supporting PHP would be absolutely no harm. I would think of it as the honeypot. It would allow people

[AOLSERVER] PHP and AOLserver Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:10:31AM +0200, Dani?l Mantione wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bernd Eidenschink wrote: PHP works with AOLserver, at least some folks use it. I don't know how well maintained the bridge ist, nor if PHP can be compiled with 4.0, but supporting PHP would be absolutely

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Bernd Eidenschink
Hi Daniel, Bas, I agree with most of your arguments. But I don't think we should think of AOLServer as a pathetic wannabe should it allow to combine it with PERL, PHP, HypeXY: If you don't need it, don't use it. People will notice that use of TCL is superior for many things but they are not bound

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Adam Leff
Strangely enough, I have never been able to connect to freenode while at the AOL offices. The DNS lookup succeeds, but the connections are always refused. In order to connect, I have to proxy my IRC connection through some other co-lo servers I have back at the University I attended. So I'm not

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Bob Woodside
On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:58:02 +0200 Bernd Eidenschink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PHP works with AOLserver, at least some folks use it. I don't know how well maintained the bridge ist, nor if PHP can be compiled with 4.0, Yes, it can. I recently built it using AOLServer 4.01 and PHP

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Zoran Vasiljevic
On Friday 21 May 2004 15:35, Bob Woodside wrote: insight into why Dossy said that moving back to an AOLserver is not at the top of the priority heap, but takes a back seat to revamping the site's content. Content??? What content? Zoran -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Dossy
On 2004.05.21, Daniël Mantione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The message to new users should be Yes. You have to switch to TCL, but, don't worry, we're sure you'll regret that you didn't do it before instead of Switch to AOLserver, it's easy and nothing has to change for you. See, I disagree here.

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Matthews
On May 21, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Dossy wrote: The learning curve is a big hurdle to technology adoption. Flattening that curve by letting folks migrate to AOLserver while maintaining their current levels of productivity ... will only ease the pain of migration. The thing we don't tell them up front

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Daniël Mantione
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Dossy wrote: On 2004.05.21, Daniël Mantione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The message to new users should be Yes. You have to switch to TCL, but, don't worry, we're sure you'll regret that you didn't do it before instead of Switch to AOLserver, it's easy and nothing has to

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Dani?l Mantione wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bob Woodside wrote: The problem here is that www.aolserver.com is just an alias for vhost.sourceforge.net. Since the site is actually hosted on SourceForge, AOL haven't got control over what Web

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Bernd Eidenschink
Ok, fine with me! But, if you want to tell this to your potential users, you must also give them a reason to switch. If the reason to switch is not to use TCL and use the AOLserver API, what is it? Users won't switch because they can leverage the vast knowledge they already have, for the

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Daniël Mantione
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bernd Eidenschink wrote: Ok, fine with me! But, if you want to tell this to your potential users, you must also give them a reason to switch. If the reason to switch is not to use TCL and use the AOLserver API, what is it? Users won't switch because they can leverage

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Bas Scheffers
Ehrm, Sourceforge doesn't own aolserver.com and whoever does can point the DNS records to anywhere, including an AOL server running AOLserver! Bas. Andrew Piskorski said: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Dani?l Mantione wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bob Woodside wrote: The

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Daniël Mantione
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bas Scheffers wrote: Then they shouldn't be writing those bugs in the first place! ;-) Sorry but this is complete nonsense and often said by people who never used a good debugger. I have never used any debugging tools other than puts or System.out.println(), never needed

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Seeger
I've found good unit testing to be a very reliable way to avoid code bugs in the first place and, though I haven't used it in a long while, TclPro was a good debugging system for tcl code. I'm not sure where it stands now, but could it be used with AOLServer to step through tcl code? Rob Seeger

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Dossy
On 2004.05.21, Daniël Mantione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See, I disagree here. The message should probably be something like: Switch to AOLserver, you'll be able to leverage the vast knowledge you already have and be as productive as you already are. Then, as you learn more and more Tcl

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Bas Scheffers
Daniel, we are not exactly writing a compiler in Pascal or C here, are we? All we do is do a couple of database queries and format some text. In my Java work I do a bit more, like propriatary protocols on TCP/IP, bit more working with files, some threads and that sort of stuff. But all in the

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Talli Somekh
bah. i'm sick of the we need php/python/brainfuck in AOLserver to be successful and gain mindshare. i'm really quite sick of this argument that AOLserver is hard to pitch. i personally have no problem doing so whatsoever. in fact, i usually win projects on the sole basis that we are wizards in

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Daniël Mantione
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Dossy wrote: No, the point is that in the future they WILL learn and use Tcl, but in order to make the initial switch, they don't HAVE to start from scratch and spend a long time climbing the learning curve before they can feel really productive again. Ok, that's a good

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Dossy
On 2004.05.21, Talli Somekh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i find that in these situations it's usually best to set an expiration date on these things, so the offer stands until the end of the business day EST a week from today. More important than an expiration date is a due date. When can you

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Nathan Folkman
TclPro can be used with AOLserver, including the 4.x versions. Jim added the hooks a long time ago. I can try to put together some instructions if folks are interested. It's nice, but a lot slower then simply adding a bunch of ns_log statements in your code. ;-) - Nathan Robert Seeger wrote

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Dave Bauer
Nathan Folkman wrote: TclPro can be used with AOLserver, including the 4.x versions. Jim added the hooks a long time ago. I can try to put together some instructions if folks are interested. That would be very helpful. I would definitely appreciate any hints on how to use TclPro with AOLserver.

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Jeff Hobbs
Nathan Folkman wrote: TclPro can be used with AOLserver, including the 4.x versions. Jim added the hooks a long time ago. I can try to put together some instructions if folks are interested. That would be very helpful. I would definitely appreciate any hints on how to use TclPro with

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:54:16PM -0400, Nathan Folkman wrote: TclPro can be used with AOLserver, including the 4.x versions. Jim added the hooks a long time ago. I can try to put together some instructions if folks are interested. It's nice, but a lot slower then simply adding a bunch of

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-21 Thread Bart Teeuwisse
I have tried Tcl Dev Kit 3 recently and while it worked for the first connection to AOLserver, the Tcl debugger locked up AOLserver at the end of that connection. I followed the instructions at http://www.tcl.tk/man/aolserver3.0/tadp-ch6.htm /Bart -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To

[AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Jim Davidson
Hi, I would like to formally announce that effective immediately, Dossy Shiobara will be taking over the role of Project Leader for AOLserver. He will be responsible for all aspects of the project, ensuring that it continues to move forward and gets the attention it currently needs to

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Tom Jackson
Congratulations Dossy! tom jackson -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Dossy
On 2004.05.20, Jim Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Expect to see a communication from Dossy himself regarding the upcoming plans and goals for the project. Thanks, Jim. I suspect this announcement comes as sort of a surprise to everyone as the list and project have been fairly quiet in the

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Dossy
On 2004.05.20, Dossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be posting the roadmap to the wiki shortly, but for now, here it is: FYI, http://panoptic.com/wiki/aolserver/Roadmap -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web:

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Nathan Folkman
Oh, one more... Would it make sense to look at doing .NET integration using work being done on the Mono project? That way it could theoretically be leveraged across different OS's, not just Windoze. http://www.go-mono.com/ - Nathan Dossy wrote on 5/20/2004, 1:52 PM: While we shouldn't be

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Tomasz Kosiak
Uytkownik Dossy napisa: On 2004.05.20, Jim Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Expect to see a communication from Dossy himself regarding the upcoming plans and goals for the project. Thanks, Jim. I suspect this announcement comes as sort of a surprise to everyone as the list and project have

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Rob Crittenden
There is a beta NSS/NSPR module checked into soureforge, the nsnss module. Should work ok but so far nobody that I know of has used it in production. rob Nathan Folkman wrote: Congratulations! I was wondering if there were any plans to start up the weekly AOLserver chats again, and also what are

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Nathan Folkman
Hopefully I can clear up a few things here... :-) First off, Dossy actually now works for AOL in Jim Davidson's group. I was chatting with some other folks in the AOLserver Community recently, and there seemed to be a little confusion about how and why he was chosen to lead the project. Dossy

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Dossy
On 2004.05.20, Tomasz Kosiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to see clear message from new leader about what has happend and what is current status of the project. I really don't want to dwell on the past and everyone who has been following AOLserver knows where things have been over the

Re: [AOLSERVER] ANN: New project leader for AOLserver

2004-05-20 Thread Bart Teeuwisse
I recently setup an aolserver room at irc.freenode.net. Hardly anyone hangs out there these days, but the conversations there are being logged and are available from http://www.thecodemill.biz/services//aolserver/irc/. Maybe that IRC would be a viable alternatice to AIM? /Bart -- AOLserver -