Gravity now OpenSource

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Gordon Darling

Gravity has gone Open Source

http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/status.html

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IMPORTANT NOTES FOR GRAVITY USERS

Early versions using the open source code should be regarded as
developers versions. Download and use at your own risk.

If you are a current Gravity user you should be aware that the open
source version is stripped down from the earlier releases (Build 2057
and lower). This was necessary for releasing the code.

Be aware that you will not be able to customize the toolbar and there
is no spell checker. Also, the obscure secret panic or "boss" mode
functionality is removed.

Regular expressions are changed to Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
(PCREs). You may have to change filters, rules or scoring that use
regular expressions. You MUST perform the registry change mentioned in
the Important Changes so that Gravity recognizes binary parts and for
the complete binaries filters to work.

You can revert back to builds 2056 or 2057, the database has not
changed. However, if you performed the registry change for complete
binaries, you should change it back to the default setting [0-9]+$b/[0-
9]+$c

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Regards
Gordon
 
Gravity has gone Open Source

http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/status.html
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Thanks for the heads-up, Gordon. It's been known this move was
coming, and I'm glad it's here now. :) I'm rather amazed at how
much is being done lately in freeware newsreader development (Dialog,
Mesnews, Xananews, &c.) and this is bound to reinvigorate Gravity
development.
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Regular expressions are changed to Perl Compatible Regular
Expressions (PCREs). You may have to change filters, rules or
scoring that use regular expressions.
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I don't know if this was done because some proprietary code had to be
ditched or just because it is a good idea to use PCRE. Either way,
I'm very glad to read this - the old Gravity regexes drove me nuts.

--
»Q« It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you
mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers.
It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and
likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
 
Thanks for the heads-up, Gordon. It's been known this move was
coming, and I'm glad it's here now. :) I'm rather amazed at how
much is being done lately in freeware newsreader development (Dialog,
Mesnews, Xananews, &c.) and this is bound to reinvigorate Gravity
development.
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It's also good to see that the OpenSource revolution is rolling on!

All the best
Gordon
 
Gordon said:
It's also good to see that the OpenSource revolution is rolling on!
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But... All the newsreaders I've used, all the way back to "readnews"
have all been "OpenSource". That includes GNUs, tin, rn, nn,...

Who'd be stupid enough to purchase a newsreader???

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
On that special day, Gary R. Schmidt, ([email protected]) said...
But... All the newsreaders I've used, all the way back to "readnews"
have all been "OpenSource". That includes GNUs, tin, rn, nn,...

Who'd be stupid enough to purchase a newsreader???
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Windows owners, of course. What did you expect?


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
But... All the newsreaders I've used, all the way back to "readnews"
have all been "OpenSource". That includes GNUs, tin, rn, nn,...
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Not to be picky, but as the avid "opensource" user you are, I'm sure
your already aware that OpenSource is free as in speech, and not free as
in beer. So just because its opensource does not mean its automatically
free, carry on.
 
tully said:
Not to be picky, but as the avid "opensource" user you are, I'm sure
your already aware that OpenSource is free as in speech, and not free as
in beer. So just because its opensource does not mean its automatically
free, carry on.
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Well readnews, rn, tin, nn, all pre-dated the GNU-isation of free
software, we just saved them from comp.sources (or earlier, net.sources)
and compiled them, they were generally in the public domain. I just
went and Go Ogle'd net.sources for some of Larry Wall's rn source
(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...0&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&start=500&sa=N),
and there were _no_ copyight statements or any such guff in it.

Ah, the good old days!

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
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Who'd be stupid enough to purchase a newsreader???
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Maybe Windoze owners like me who _absolutely_ shall not even momentarily
consider using the "free" insecure virii and worm welcome mats that M$
provides. My first true news reader did cost me a whopping $30 US and it
was worth every penny. Virii plague # 3792 and earlier have been
weathered fine because I am not using Micro$hite netware. I discovered acf
much later after I purchased a great non Micro$ux news reader. The option
was simple.... Pay $$ or deal with the virii and worm problems. Which
would you pick?

Sometimes when you are not aware of freeware, you must pay for quality.
And lest you forget, not all freeware is the same quality as commercialware
whether initially or ever; Some features require cash expenditure. The
freeware net software has improved since those days many years ago. .
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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"This is not to say there is anything wrong with people playing 2e, 1e or
whatever else you want to play. Your money, your time, your choice of how
you have fun. Long as you do that it doesn't matter what you play."
----"Lord_Anthrax" <[email protected]>
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/3918/ADD_Main.html
 
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|And lest you forget, not all freeware is the same quality as commercialware

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|> Cheers,
|> Gary B-)

Well said Gary

That's a point which is often forgotten/ignored in this group!

And while I'm ranting 'open source' software is not necessarily good
software eg the Gravity on sourceforge is not the developed version that
I am writing this with.
Jim
 
And while I'm ranting 'open source' software is not necessarily
good software eg the Gravity on sourceforge is not the developed
version that I am writing this with.
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Yeah, but the proprietary version you are using has only had minimal
updates since version 2.3, when its owner closed up shop, whereas now
that the source has been released it stands a pretty good chance of
eclipsing the old versions given some time.

--
»Q« It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you
mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers.
It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and
likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
 
|<|
|> And while I'm ranting 'open source' software is not necessarily
|> good software eg the Gravity on sourceforge is not the developed
|> version that I am writing this with.
|
|Yeah, but the proprietary version you are using has only had minimal
|updates since version 2.3, when its owner closed up shop, whereas now
|that the source has been released it stands a pretty good chance of
|eclipsing the old versions given some time.
|
Agreed 100%.
I just needed to make a point in a group where 'free' seems often
to be equated to 'holy'.
--
Jim
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On that special day, Gordon Darling, ([email protected]) said...
Gravity has gone Open Source

http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/status.html
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I just wanted to add that the Open Source version is working notably
faster on my machine. My Outbox is full of old messages, which caused
long delays when closing it. Now this bug is gone.
If you are a current Gravity user you should be aware that the open
source version is stripped down from the earlier releases (Build 2057
and lower). This was necessary for releasing the code.
Click to expand...

Perhaps it is exactly this which helped in reducing this delay.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
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