On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Chris wrote:

> Now that Net. is gonna give the sorce, is there any way that the older 
> source would be available?  Someone said earlier that it requrires 
> motif and that 5.0 would be too slow anyways.  Now, if they release the 
> older source too, I think I could deal with 2.0 as much as the next 
> person, to gain speed.  but, does this still requite motif and is there a 
> chance of getting motif for NetBSD??

2.0 was fairly feature-puny (its HTML support is less complete than
current versions of lynx, which at least partially support frames). I'd
love to see 3.0, though (assuming the source was out there for people to
fix all the memory leaks, etc.).

Actually, if I had my pick, I'd say take the interface from 3.0, shove in
the HTML parsing code from 4.0, #if 0 collabra #endif, and replace it with
the 3.0 newsreader code (or just use rtin ;-).  Just MHO.

What in 4.x makes it so sluggish, anyway?  Or, restated, why would it be
any less tolerable under NetBSD than under MacOS?  Or is it that bad under
MacOS?  As an added data point, 4.x's MkLinux version seems basically fine
until you hit collabra like a brick wall.... 

As for my complaints about collabra, using NS 4.x for newsreading under
MkLinux is probably the most unpleasant newsreading experience I've ever
had... half the time it crashed (sometimes crashed the whole system)
before it even got the full group list (which nearly took forever over a
modem link), it didn't cache the full group list between executions (or if
it did, it wasn't apparent, judging by the multiple-hour wait each time),
and didn't provide any way to simply read groups from a full group list
(who really has time to wait for the full list, and then subscribe to a
list before reading it?).

Not sure if Collabra is in the standard or just the professional... either
way, it's the Windows 95 of newsreaders, IMHO....


David

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