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Posted by Steve Ackman on August 23, 2008, 12:16 am
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00:09:22 GMT, DoN. Nichols, dnichols@d-and-d.com wrote:
> To download a pre-compiled version, check out:
>
> <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/download.html#binaries>
>
> The current list of pre-compiled versions are:
>
> BeOS
> Debian (stable)
> Debian (testing)
> Debian (unstable)
> FreeBSD
> Mac OS X
> NetBSD
> OS/2
> Solaris
> Ubuntu
> Windows (32bit)
>
> Given the number of versions for Debian, it suggests that Debian (a
> linux flavor) is the platform on which it is developed.
There are three different "current" releases of
Debian, and it's sometimes the case that the versions
of slrn are different on all three. It's also been
the case that slrn has been at the same version on
all three Debians. Development has been fairly rapid
lately, so AFAICT, Testing is at pre0.9.9-111, while
Stable is still back at slrn/0.9.8.1pl2. Unstable
*should* be at 0.9.9-release by now I would think.
I compiled the 0.9.9-release version on this machine
running Debian Testing, and have been switching back and
forth. (Also been switching xterm with the more UTF-8
capable XFCE Terminal.)
As to development... I haven't seen JED express a
preference (I think he uses several platforms), but I'm
fairly certain Thomas uses Ubuntu as he first had
packages for download for all the current Ubuntu
versions.
> I'm running it
> on Solaris (a Sun SysV unix). Windows is probably the last based on
> alphabetic sorting, FWIW, since all of these seem to be in alphabetic
> order.
> Obviously, go for the "(stable)" if you are running Debian.
"Stable" refers to a fairly antiquated version of
Debian. IF you're running Debian, you'd most likely
want to run whatever version of slrn is current to
that version of Debian.
> The
> others are for those who are helping with the experimentation, and you
> don't need untested features.
The "Testing" version of Debian is actually quite
stable. It did jump Firefox to version 3.0 before it
was really ready, but other than that, I can't ever
recall a problem keeping all the Testing packages up
to date. "Stable" means "will run for years and years
and years without crashing" while "Testing" is more
along the lines of "might crash once a year or so
depending on how badly you abuse it."
> I've never used Agent, because it is not available for the
> platforms which I run connected to the net. But I would say that slrn
> is hardly a "simpler" program. It *is*, however, a very powerful one.
I tried Agent out under Wine for about 3 days. Let's
put it this way. Since you like slrn, you'd hate agent.
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>
> <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/download.html#binaries>
>
> The current list of pre-compiled versions are:
>
> BeOS
> Debian (stable)
> Debian (testing)
> Debian (unstable)
> FreeBSD
> Mac OS X
> NetBSD
> OS/2
> Solaris
> Ubuntu
> Windows (32bit)
>
> Given the number of versions for Debian, it suggests that Debian (a
> linux flavor) is the platform on which it is developed.