Re: The future of PyGopherd

I would port it to Go using https://github.com/prologic/go-gopher

:D Happy to help with this!

James Mills / prologic

E: [email protected]
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au


On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:16 PM Christoph Lohmann <20h-hp7/[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 06:07:18 +0200 John Goerzen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 2) Would anybody be interested in adding UMN gopherd metadata support to
> > another server?  (there was some discussion in IRC about geobyidae doing
> > this but I'm unsure how that progressed)
>
> I am  working on creating  CGI and  converter scripts of  the bucktooth
> format and  the UMN format  for geomyidae. The modular  architecture of
> geomyidae allows this easily.
>
> While doing so I  find more and more things that  need to be documented
> or  preserved  for historical  reasons,  so  the  task  is not  just  a
> converter script, it's also making a documentation of what was there.
>
> So  anyone wanting  to help  and knows  some old  obscure gophermap  or
> gopherd format, that needs conversion, let me know. Writing a converter
> or a handler in a cgi or dcgi script is really easy.
>
> When that is done, a new geomyidae  release will come out, with the new
> gopher TLS support and some speedups. Everyone stay tuned.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>