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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:01:07PM +0000, J.A. Neitzel wrote:

> I am just curious about the current status of the Gopher Project. > Last release was gopher-3.0.5. Are there plans to continue > development? I sent a little patch a few weeks ago and did not > hear anything.

Yes, there are such plans. Right now, I have been spending a lot of time on my OfflineIMAP project -- gopher://quux.org/1/devel/offlineimap -- and haven't had a lot of time to devote to Gopher. The patch did indeed go onto the queue though :-)

Grand plan-wise, I want to discontinue support for UMN gopherd and encourage people with UMN repositories to switch to PyGopherd, which supports them. I would then continue to support UMN gopher as a client only.

I find that for these projects, I tend to be bursty -- you'll see a couple weeks of furious activity, and then a month of silence. Dunno why, it's just how I seem to work.

> You, John Goerzen, are listed as the NetBSD package maintainer for > gopher. The package is apparently still at 3.0.2..? The last > release made enough improvements that I thought an update of the > NetBSD package would have been appropriate, but ICBW. Of course, > your interpretation of what warrants an update may differ from > mine.

I no longer have any NetBSD machines available to me, so feel free to take over that port (and any other assigned to me in NetBSD). Didn't know that submitting a port would set me up as a maintainer there :-)

> I thought I might submit an OpenBSD port of gopher, but if the

Please feel free to do that.

> Anyway, I hope all is well.

It is, I've just reached my brain bandwidth limit for the week :-)

-- John