[Pan-users] Re: has development of pan stopped since januari 2004?

[Duncan]

vatbier posted <address@hidden>, excerpted below, 
on Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:42:44 +0100:

> has development of pan stopped since januari 2004?
> Is 0.14.2.91 the last and final version?
> If so, are there other good newsreaders for linux that have
> the same features as Pan whose development is still alive?

See my minutes ago reply to the "Marking Messages Read" thread for the
details, but PAN development HAS indeed been virtually frozen since
2004.01.  No, it's not /planned/ as the last version, but given this was a
hobby, not a job, for Charles, the lead developer, and that he's been busy
with other things...  No one honestly knows if development will restart. 
The time hasn't been entirely wasted, however.  Again, see the other post
(and the list archive) for details.

As for other newsreaders...  Nothing matches the exact PAN feature set. 
Depending on what you want, KDE's KNode is a decent graphical newsreader,
but doesn't do yEnc, there's Sylpheed (and Sylpheed Claws, the testing
version), a graphical reader of sorts, and various other newsreaders CLI
and GUI based.  Gnus/Emacs is worth a mention as one such solution because
it does yEnc, altho it's not quite the GUI client PAN is.  If you don't
mind proprietary-ware and want a good binary news client, try BNR2/BNR3,
developed using Borland Delphi (for MSWormOS) Kylex (for Linux).  In many
ways it's presently the best of class, better than PAN, particularly for
automated multi-server binary harvesting, but it's not open source. 
(Actually, I'm not positive of /its/ status, but I DO know it's developed
using Delphi/Kylex which is DEFINITELY not open source, so...)

Good luck in your search.  Unfortunately, newsreader choices are a bit
limited on Linux at present.

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