Re: Fwd: status of slrn

Hallo Peter,

Peter J Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007 19:24:42 Andrew wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:34:45 +0000 (UTC),
>>
>> Jörg Sommer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I've wrote a macro for it. You can tag a troll score -2000 (variable
>> > bad_score) and the article_mode_hook creates a OneKeyScore for it.
>> >
>> > http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/auto_ignore.sl
>> >
>> > IMO, no need to change slrn.
>>
>> Thanks Jörg, I'll check it out. I still think this kind of functionality
>> should be part of the newsreader, though (along with the 1-key scoring
>> feature).
>
> I have no objection to including such useful macros in the slrn distribution, 
> but I'd rather they remained optional extras rather than being rewritten as 
> part of the C source.

I've the same feeling. I think the slrn binary should provide some core
functionalities and everything more should be done in SLang macros. The
user can load them or not.

But I think it's important to have many of these addons in the slrn
distribution, maybe in /third-party or /contrib or /gate-to-hell.
Otherwise I see the same happening like with jed that the development
of the core and the addons go in different directions.

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
Der Hase läuft schneller als der Fuchs,
denn der Hase läuft um sein Leben.

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