Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Anyone got a cnews inews written in C?
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.043752.19589@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6658@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 90 04:37:52 GMT

In article <6658@dog.ee.lbl.gov> leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (ucbvax!leres for uucp weenies) writes:
>The cnews inews seems like a maintenance nightmare and I believe it to
>be the weakest link in the cnews distribution. Not only is it slow, but
>it's nearly impossible to debug. Has anyone written a C version?

Geoff is working on a mostly-C version, actually.  Inews originally seemed
like a natural application for the shell, since it's fully of "policy" code
that people might like to customize.  Unfortunately, it's now too big and
complex for that to be a realistic thing to do, and slow to boot.  (Not
impossibly slow, but enough so to be annoying on slow machines.)  He
decided some time ago that a reimplementation was in order.  (Note, he
is reimplementing, not just mechanically translating into C, which is
why it's taking a while.)
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