Re: lyntin web-site status

George Thomson <lyntin-j5AjBtOn6oqw5LPnMra/[email protected]> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:42:32 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.mud.client.lyntin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I just wanted to chime in and say that I still mud occasionally and when
I do it is always with Lyntin.  By far the best client ever!

Thanks to you all for your work

George

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 00:14 -0400, will wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I really apologize for falling off the face of the earth for the last
> month and a half--too many things going on.
> 
> I spent some time today extracting the data from the phpwiki we had on
> the web-site.  It took a while to figure out what the format for the
> db files was, but then I figured out it's gdbm and I pulled down a
> Python module for gdbm, extracted the data, and started reformatting
> it.
> 
> My question is this: what do we want to do with it?
> 
> SourceForge has all web-sites on a read-only file system, so there's
> no way we can put up another file-based wiki again.  We could go with
> mediawiki, but ...  since none of us are putting a huge amount of time
> into Lyntin, I don't think we'd put a lot of time into editing the
> wiki and it'll just fill with spam and continue to be useless.  So I
> think I'm against doing another wiki.
> 
> We could absorb the files into documentation, convert it to reST,
> check it into CVS with the rest of Lyntin, and then post it on the
> site in HTML form.  I just did something similar to that with
> PyBlosxom, so doing it for Lyntin is more of a "putting in the time"
> issue than a "figure out how to do it all" issue.
> 
> Or some third option I haven't thought of.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?  How many people are still using Lyntin?
> 
> /will
> 
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