Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Sinister x
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 12:54 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

"Deuce" <deuce@SYNCNIX.remove-d0u-this> wrote in message 
news:4304C259.6410.sync@nix.synchro.net...
>  To: Time Warrior
>  Re: Re: The Documentary...
>  By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Thu Aug 18 2005 12:03:00
>
> > Seeing as your point that Synch can look like an do anything is true, 
> > and
> > Synch is open source and powerful -- this not only applies to 
> > configuration
> > but also applies to unsatisfied programmers as well. If an old school
> > programmer would rather Synch did alot of things differently then it 
> > just
> > amazes me that they haven't taken the code and granted their own 
> > requests.
>
> If they make changes that would be impossible using JS or BAJA, they would
> probobly be included in the Synchronet source tree unless they were 
> braindead.
>
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Speaking of which, I was perusing the source, and wanted to give you guys a 
hand in externalizing the msg reader and file lister in synchronet (I know 
that's on the list for v4). I see the functions for the msg reader itself 
and where the command keys get processed etc etc. The major problem though 
is that the reader does an update of scan pointers and other nice stuff 
which is all internal and so you can't just make a call to an external 
reader and have it do everything you need. The JS Object Model would have to 
be updated I presume to allow functions for updating the scan pointers while 
in the middle of a message reading session. That was the major one I think, 
but there could be others iirc if the message reading interface has to 
obtain and collect the queries itself on the message base listing. Any ideas 
where one might start in implementing such an interface and what else I 
would need to allow for changes? I presume the user config would have to be 
updated, and so would scfg (for adding externals). 


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