Pan?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 15.02.2005 kl. 11.40 skrev D. D. Brierton:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:41 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> > Check out the -devel list, the "rawhide report: 20050121" thread.
> 
> Thanks. I found it at last. It sounds like several others have the same
> reservations about moving Pan to Extras --- is there *any* newsreader in
> Core now which can browse yEnc encoded binary newsgroups?
> 
> > It's not going away, it's going to Extras.  Hopefully a lot of other stuff
> > will join it.
> 
> Absolutely. I'm all for moving apps which provide duplicate
> functionality to Extras. But in the case of Pan we're losing something
> from Core which I think of as being pretty basic, i.e. a proper
> newsreader.
> 
> Best, Darren

Otoh, moving things to extras migth make sure things get better tested
before release, as there will be fewer packages per developer.

It also opens up the possibility for upstream developers to maintain
"their own" programs in a much closer way than today.