[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNE SUPPORT
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:35:48 -0800
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Ok Jason,
Good idea ! Go ahead and
show us how it's done !! :-}
Eric
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:25:25 -0500 Jason <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> Eric S. Emerson wrote:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > Sam E.,
> > If it's "quantum leaps" your looking
> > for then Arachne is not for you. Stick with
> > M$'s latest or Linux.......they will give you
> > "quantum leaps" in size and bloat. Compare
> > the size of those other distributions of "fully
> > functional" software with Arachne. Arachne
> > fits on one floppy. Add JS and SSL into it's
> > core and just guess how much Arachne
> > would increase in size ?? !!!
> > Would you also like a little Flash and
> > Active X ??
> >
> >
> A reasonable design would have those things be separate addons which
> you
> could elect to add in.
> > :-}}
> >
> > 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
> >>> AUSREG Consultancy http://www.ausreg.com
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> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >
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