Subj : OpenXP
To   : acn
From : Oli
Date : Sat Sep 11 2021 07:24 pm

acn wrote (2021-09-11):

 O>> I'm more interested in fixing the current software and standards.

 a> That's a good intention.

 a> I hope that eg. OpenXP would still be compatible with your ideas.

I don't expect that binkp/1.1 compatibility will go away anytime soon.

 a> Because, as I see it, many of the original authors of this (really
 a> great and superior to most other similar) program aren't part of the
 a> current development team. And as I understand it, the current team
 a> mostly only fixes small bugs - but there won't be much progress eg.
 a> for new platforms (arm...) and there won't be big rewrites eg. of the
 a> BinkP part.

Is downloaded OpenXP and tried to compile it on my Raspi, which didn't work out of the box. Is there anything that would make a port hard to achieve? It's FreePascal, little endian, 32 bit. There was some assembler, but I don't know how much of it is non-optional and needs to be ported to Pascal.

 a> I guess something like this might be true for other parts of FTN
 a> software...

..... and most of the other other old software is abandoned and doesn't compile on modern systems or is closed source and there is no hope of any update. I guess unmaintained FTN software will become irrelevant at some point. It's amazing that CrossPoint / OpenXP has been ported to Linux and has still a development team. Anyone running Z-Netz or Maustausch software?

Does OpenXP binkp mailer work in server mode too or is it client only?

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