On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:12:43AM -0800, William Morgan wrote: > Why is it that people are so excited about having an email clients with > this crazy client/server architecture? We don't demand that of any other > console program we use.
Let's see, what console programs do I have open right now? Mutt, irssi, lynx, tintin++, and btlaunchmanycurses. We've already discussed Mutt. irssi is a great example of a console program that acts as a client to a server. lynx is an example of the most commonly understood client/server relationship today. tintin++ is a mud client, and the improvements it has over simple telnet clients in the specific domain of muds could serve as a model for others that rely on ssh/sftp/etc for other domains. btlaunchmanycurses is a curses bittorrent client and, being bittorrent, connects to other clients instead of a server. Nonetheless, it demonstrates another protocol that I choose a console UI for. Even Vim provides the option of editing via sftp and scp, essentially creating a client connection to files on a server. It's a pretty fantastic feature that I recommend you try out if you haven't done so already. > If you can run a sup server somewhere, surely you can run sshd there > instead. The only difference would be UI lag on slow connections. Is > that the big win? The ability to access these programs over ssh is part of the reason I use them, but I prefer running them on the local box because UI lag and dropped connections have frustrated me enough that I'd rather not deal with them when I don't have to. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
