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

[Mauro Tortonesi]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Chris Leishman wrote:

>
> On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> <snip>
> >> 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.

well, if simone wants to help us, we might be able to add i18n feature to
nc6 in a lightning, but perhaps we should plan it for 0.3.1 or 0.4.0.

> > 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 completely agree with you here. complete compatibility with nc has never
been a project goal for nc6.

> 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!

too bad :-(

> 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?

not only you have to conform to their crappy coding standard, but you have
to contact them and send them a declaration that guarantees them from
being sued from developers for the copyright of the sources.

perhaps simone can be more precise about this.

> 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?

it is a thing i have wanted to do for some time. now i am reinstalling all
xml tools for working on the website, and i'll write an homepage for nc6
ASAP.

-- 
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