|03Quoting message from |11Richard Falken |03to |11Nick Andre
|03on |1110 May 22  05:17:09|03.

RF>   Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
RF>   By: Nick Andre to Jas Hud on Mon May 09 2022 02:10 pm
RF> 
 > Synchronet also apparently has very advanced scripting capabilities and can
RF> be
 > tailored to every conceivable fantasy one dreams up. I challenge you to giv
 > me a scenario where you absolutely MUST have that source code to run a
RF> board?
 > 
 > Nick
RF> 
RF> From the top of my head: you want the source code if you want to run the
RF> software on a
RF> POSIX compliant Operating System for which the original developer does not
RF> care to
RF> release a binary package.
RF> 


if you're runing *nix you need to compile it.

i think these guys here were talking about actually modifying the source.
they're saying that synchronet is so configurable that it's not necessary.
people still edit the source and have their own little versions.

probably the one thing people weren't happy about was the file areas and how 
they handled LFN and listings.  there were a few guys playing around with that
and maybe some of their ideas or modifications made into the latest release.

there are some things that are hard coded that i can see people wanting to 
change. for example some of the color settings are in attr.cfg.  that's just a
little text file that handles SOME of the colors:

WH                      Mnemonic Prompts High
G                       Mnemonic Prompts Low
WH                      Mnemonic Commands
WH4E                         String Input Inverse Text
RH                      Error/Warning Message
WH                      Node Number in Node Status
GH                      User Name in Node Status
G                       Node Status
BH                      File Name in Listings
M                       File Points in Listings
W                       File Descriptions in Listings
YH                      File Listings Header Box
B                       File Listings Title Underline
GH                      Chat Text Input Locally
G                       Chat Text Input Remotely
W                       Mult-node Chat Text Input
WH                      External Programs (default attribute)
WH5                     Votes Full
WH                      Votes Empty
WH5                     Progress Complete
WH                      Progress Incomplete


i think it's obvious to most people that these values belong in the text.dat
if i was enthusiastic enough about bbsing and we had some users, i'd probably 
make this change for my own system.   BUT..... if there was another release 
i'd just be screwed and have to work around their next changes.
it would be better to get them to accept the changes and then submit it.

... If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test

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