RE: [Pan-users] Coming April 1: Pan 0.90

[Travis]

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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 16:07
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Subject: [Pan-users] Coming April 1: Pan 0.90

> I've kept mum on this for a /long/ time because I didn't know
> when I'd have it ready, but here's a nice April Fool's gift
> for you... :)
> 
> cheers,
> Charles
> ======================================================================
> 
> Pan 0.90 is the first beta of a ground-up rewrite of Pan in C++.
> 
> Some of the best user-visible improvements:
> 
> * The memory footprint for large newsgroups has been cut by 2/3.
>    (A month's worth of headers in a sample binaries group dropped   
> from 283M to 94M.) 
> 
> * The time to download headers has been cut by 2/3 by parallelizing
>    the download across multiple conections to the server. (In the same
>    sample group, downloading a months' worth of headers dropped from 
> 17 minutes to 5 minutes.) 
> 
> * The time to load large newsgroups from disk has been cut by 90%.
>    (In the same sample newsgroup, the time to load from disk
>    dropped from 14 seconds to 1.3 seconds.)
> 
> * Multiserver support.  Pan can now download files in parallel --
>    not just with multiple connections to the same server, but also   
> to multiple servers. 
> 
> * NZB support.  Pan can now import NZB files.  It can also be started
>    in an NZB client mode that doesn't create the newsreader window at
> all. 
> 
> * The entire user interface has been redesigned and rewritten    to
> use fresh gtk goodness. 
> 
> 
> Some of the best backend improvements:
> 
> * The source code's line count dropped from 44,382 to 22,281 - and is
> far cleaner. 
> 
> * Fewer library prerequisites: Pan no longer requires GNet or libxml2.
> 
> * Better decoupling has made possible unit tests that were impossible
>    before, such as mocking up a news server session to test
> tasks running
>    in the queue.
> 
> * The task and application layers are separated from the backend,
>    so a database backend can be added later if desired.
> 

Yippee.  I hope a Windows version follows in the not too distant future.

Thank you.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington