[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNE SUPPORT
- From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:39:41 -0500 (EST)
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HI Eric,
Yeah, she fits on a floppy. But what's the advantage of that?
I haven't put anything on a floppy in ten years. Don't even know
if my floppy drives still works.
I'd like to be able to use Arachne for everyday web browsing, but
there are too many roadblocks. I've cheered on the developers for
years, campaigned with Glenn to get Arachne GPL'd, followed development
closely since the first ver .99 beta. Installed and used everyone of
Michael Polak's releases. I'm just an ordinary user with old hardware.
I switched to Firefox several years ago out of frustration.
I'm sorry if this upsets the true believers, but I don't want to
engage in the various work arounds, editing and so forth required
to keep going with Arachne.
Still use Arachne on an old 386 to send mail to a small mailing
list I manage. But I use a web interface through Firefox to read my mail.
I think it's too bad, but without active developers there's just not
any hope of progress.
Sorry,
Sam Ewalt
On Sun, December 7, 2008 9:20 pm, 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 ??
>
> :-}}
>
> 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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