slrn development snapshot with slang-2 support is out

Hi!

I finally got round to release a development snapshot of slrn that can
optionally be compiled against slang-2. It is available as a tarball from
our patches page:
<http://slrn.sourceforge.net/patches/index.html#sect_devel>

If you have some time, please try it and report any bugs you might find.

Here is a brief FAQ entry about the current status of slang-2 support:

  1.6.  How well are slang-2 and Unicode supported right now?
 
  Since version 0.9.8.2, slrn compiles against slang-2. The option to
  compile with slang-1 will be kept until slang-2 (as well as its
  support in slrn) proved to be sufficiently stable.
 
  The next item on our TODO list will be to implement proper charset
  conversion. At the moment, slrn in a UTF-8 terminal will only display
  articles in ASCII and UTF-8 correctly. Also, articles that you write
  will simply be sent out as slrn finds them on disk, with the charset
  declaration given in your config file (mime_charset).
 
  A current drawback of slang-2 is that its regexp engine lacks UTF-8
  support. When you run slrn in UTF-8 mode, you should have your score
  file in UTF-8 as well. You may still encounter surprising results; in
  particular, regexp matching has no error handling for invalid UTF-8.

Here is a full list of changes since the last stable version:

0. Bug fixes include:
  * slrnpull fetches marked articles even if no new headers are available.
  * slrn would sometimes eat the last char of an article when posting.
  * slrnpull gives permission 600 to debugging files (may contain passwords).
  * Some minor usability glitches (Alain Bench)
  * Fixed fd leaks on some error conditions (Sami Farin)
1. Ported to slang-2 (patch by John E. Davis). slrn still compiles with
   slang-1 and I will keep this option until slang-2 is completely stable.
   Please see the FAQ for the current status of slang-2 support.
2. Introduced quit_hook, which is executed when slrn quits.
3. Symbolic key names <BackTab> and <F13> through <F20> added (Alain Bench).
-- 
Thomas Schultz <[email protected]>  News on slrn: http://slrn.sf.net/news.html
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