[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNE SUPPORT
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:31:04 -0800
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Say Sam E.,
Have you read any
Norman Vincent Peale lately ??
Eric
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:15:26 -0500 (EST) "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> What I mean, guys, is that without people who can write code
> in C, there will be no major improvement in Arachne. There is no
> hope now of major improvement.
>
> No hope of SSL or JS.
>
> No hope of Arachne being fully capable of the ordinary functions
> that most people expect of a web browser on a routine basis.
>
> Sure, a few people will use it, play with it, adapt it to
> various uses. But Arachne will be making no "quantum leap"
> forward in the future.
>
> Sad, but true.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, December 7, 2008 3:15 pm, Ron Clarke wrote:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:54:38 -0500 (EST)
> > "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> As much as we might all hate to admit it, we're going to have to
> admit
> >> it--without Glenn, Ray, Joe and the mere handful of others who
> have
> >> been part of the Arachne "development mob" we have indeed reached
> >> the end of the line.
> >
> > Depends on what you mean by that. I am still getting Arachne to
> do new
> > things and I am surely not the only one. Maybe the core is not
> going
> > to see any more quantum leaps, but Arachne's capabilities don't
> depend
> > ONLY on the core.
> >
> >> As Udo pointed out there hasn't been anything but bug fixes and
> >> minor tweakings for years anyway.
> >
> > Which is still progress.
> >
> >> There is no money to hire anyone.
> >
> > Got to agree with that. L.D. summed it all up pretty well all
> round.
> >
> >> No volunteers to continue development work. Just a rag tag group
> of 59
> >> mostly swiftly
> >> aging "dosasaurs"
> >
> > Sure. :) Oldies, but goodies !
> >
> >> End of the line.
> >
> > I am not so sure. :)
> >
> > I use DOS and Arachne every day in my business. And my brain is
> not
> > dead. Yet !
> > And I am sure I'm not the only one with an on-going interest. So,
> in
> > spite of some of the postings to this list, I have confidence in
> Arachne's
> > future.
> >
> > And it won't rely on hiring anyone.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron
> >
> > --
> > Ron Clarke
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