Subject: Looking for Spruce...

From: [email-masked] (Guy BRAND)
Date: 4 Aug 1994 09:32:15 GMT

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Where can a beta of Spruce be found ?

Thanks
GB
 
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Guy BRAND                                         [email-masked]
Centre de Recherche Chimie                             ULP Strasbourg (FRANCE)

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From: [email-masked] (Leiman Ian)
Date: 5 Aug 1994 15:35:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Guy BRAND) writes:
|> Where can a beta of Spruce be found ?

I am the author of Spruce.

Unfortunately I have been so busy with my work since May that I haven't
had any time to finish Spruce up to distribution quality yet. 
The summer has also been so nice that I've spent all my spare time 
outdoors. When the autumn rains begin, that's when it's good time to start
writing code again. Hope that doesn't come too soon :-)

I have also been waiting for PINE 3.90 release, and hoping to upgrade
Spruce to same level at once.

Those who are interesed and have a decent WWW client can take a look
at some documentation I started in May at:

http://dshp02.trs.ntc.nokia.com:3000/Spruce/Spruce.html

Especially interesting should be the interface description with screen
captures at:
http://dshp02.trs.ntc.nokia.com:3000/Spruce/interface.html

One can also download an uuencoded demo executable for HP9000/7xx.
The WWW server is located in Finland (see /~leiman/Finland.html)
so the network connection may s l o w from somewhere like Seattle,
or even down sometimes.

The source code of Spruce is at an ugly messy state and I ought to 
clean the source directory up before I dare to show that stuff publicly.

This is an idea I have been thing for some time:
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As soon as I find time, I'll start a major cleanup at Spruce source
directory and put it all publicly available through HTML hypertext
links. The HTML would also document the code a bit, making it reasonably 
easy to see the structure of the code. How does this sound?

I also have to figure out how to configure my httpd (WWW server) to
act as an ftp proxy, so that I could distribute source code and
compiled binaries from my own host. The biggest problem here is to
assure system security against hacker penetration.

I have been contacted by many people who have expressed a keen interest 
in porting the Spruce code for various platforms. Perhaps this way
also compiled binaries can be provided.

Currently I have very little time to read news, so I may not read this
newsgroup too often.

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