[Pan-devel] Re: Generating NZB files

[Duncan]

Charles Kerr <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 02 Feb 2007
18:18:30 -0600:

> Konrad Karl wrote:
> 
>> In my situation it is just very useful to throw the .nzb onto something
>> which (typically) runs on a remote screen session on some machine
>> accessed over ssh (low bandwidth between office and "download machine").
>> Thus I can even avoid the traffic which the progress meters of nzbperl
>> are generating by simply detaching from screen.
>> 
>> Another advantage of nzbperl is that it just needs a text console and
>> very little resources (a few perl modules). Pan needs the whole gtk
>> stuff which is not strictly necessary for the download process itself.
> 
> That's what I'd hoped -- that's slated for 1.1  (#107530)

Interesting.  For some reason your post (Charles) didn't show up under
Konrad's, as viewed in pan pulling from gmane, tho it did get threaded
under the main thread correctly. I wonder if that was Thunderbird's
(Charles' mail client by the headers) or gmane's references munging?  I
doubt it was pan's reference parsing but could be, I suppose.

On http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107530 , I just CCed myself
and added some questions and thoughts.  For those who are reading and
haven't visited it yet, it's a request (and partial patch) adding the
much-requested auto-download functionality, along with auto-fetch-headers,
thus making pan perfectly command-line cron-able for auto-fetch. =8^)  As
Charles mentions, scheduled for 1.1, and with the patch mostly done
already, it should be pretty safe to say 1.1, not 1.1 then bumped to 1.2,
then bumped... like often happens to requests without patches.

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