[ds6-devel] nc6/src connection.h,1.7,1.8 parser.c,1.27,1.28

[Chris Leishman]

On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
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>> Speaking of which - I was wondering if we should consider making nc6
>> support internationalization?  Not that there's much to translate, so
>> it might not be worth it...
>
> IMVHO the internationalization is not a very interesting feature for a
> software like nc6. it would be better to add other features instead, 
> like
> SSL support.

True - although I'm sure some people could argue for it.  *shrug* I'm 
not fussed for now, thats for sure.

> however, there is another project named GNU netcat (but the last time i
> visited the GNU homepage this project was not listed there, and i 
> suppose
> they don't even know it exist) that is simply a complete rewrite of nc,
> with internationalization support and other not very useful features.
> you may want to have a look at their homepage:
>
> http://netcat.sourceforge.net
>
> the project goals and the development roadmap of GNU netcat are very
> different from the nc6 ones.

Well - ours is a complete rewrite.  Theirs they claim the 'alpha' 
version was netcat1.10, and they seem to be trying hard at 
compatibility (not always a very good idea IMHO).

I hadn't actually seen this before, but the code looks god-awful and 
since it wont even compile on my machine (gives some very, very bizarre 
assembler errors) I can't say much more than that!

I've always wondered what it takes to get called GNU blah - can you 
just call it that and hope that they don't mind?  Or do you have to 
conform to their shameful coding standard?

I think we might have to start doing some serious promotion of our 
version after the next major release ;-)  Does someone feel like 
putting together a simple webpage?

Regards,
Chris