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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: News question
Date: 25 Jun 1997 10:16:17 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <vripo5.2s2.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
> In article <5olkrg$b2l@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>,
> Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [re: leafnode ]
>
>>Any chance of a port submission ? Sounds like a good package.
>
> It is. It's a great package. I've been meaning to whip it into port-
> submittable form for a while now, but just haven't gotten around to it.
> Always something else coming up and grabbing my attention. :-)
>
> BTW, I've also written a new version of XHDR for leafnode, if anyone's
> interested. I was getting tired of being limited to matching only on
> overview data, so I extended it to allow lookups of any header field.
> Very useful in your trn killfile. See my home page below.
>
> Now, if I can just focus on one thing for a while, I'll try and get a port
> together. By the way, should I just port the standard package, or include
> my XHDR extension? The author wants me to revise it a bit before he
> includes it in his official package (I basically zapped all of his code
> that did overview lookups; he'd like me to incorporate it, using my code
> only if the header is not in the overview). Haven't even begun doing that
> yet.
Well, I'd say it's up to you, being the port writer/maintainer. You
could even get the make to ask if the user wants the XHDR extensions
and patch your stuff in based on the response (this would be less
likely to piss the author off :)
> So much to do, so little time!
I know what you mean.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !