Re: [Pan-users] Posting Binaries

[Duncan]

On Thursday 14 November 2002 19:11, Wolf J.Flywheel wrote:
>         Those of us who frequent video binary groups will probably answer
> that it *is* necessary to support.  However, *integration* is not required
> -- "par" already exists and does a fine job of verifying, recovering, and
> creating PAR sets.  Pan could simply interface with it, since it provides
> output that would enable graphical progress bars and such. []
>
>         In short, I would not mind Pan depending (optionally) on "newspost"
> and "par", just as it currently depends on "pspell" or whatever.

That's a good point to bring up.  Ideally, for those that use binary packages, 
either there'd be ones with and w/o dependencies on these external tools 
(thus, with and without the functionality they provide), which could get 
interesting, trying to provide the various packages for 15 different 
combinations of options...

OR, better do NOT require them in the depends, but provide a nice GUI 
configuration dialog, browse buttons and all, where one could point PAN in 
the right direction, to use them, if they are installed.  Ideally, there 
would be default paths either hard coded or installed by default in the pan 
config, and showing up in that nice dialog, to give the user hints as to what 
TYPE of path is normally taken, but stability and not disturbing a currently 
working setup should be higher priorities.

-- 
Duncan
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