From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 3 15:11:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E6A37BE5F; Wed, 3 May 2000 15:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5CA929B17; Wed, 3 May 2000 18:11:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B951BA1E; Wed, 3 May 2000 18:11:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:11:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@pawn.primelocation.net To: Chris Piazza Cc: Ade Lovett , Mark Ovens , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jedgar@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with the pan newsreader port In-Reply-To: <20000503150107.B495@norn.ca.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 3 May 2000, Chris Piazza wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 03:20:32PM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 07:13:53PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > I have couple of problems with the pan newsreader. Firstly, > > > *everytime* I start it I get: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > No idea if this is going to fix your problems, but I noticed a new > > PAN distribution turned up recently. > > > > http://www.lovett.com/FreeBSD/news.pan.080b7.patch > > > > will get you the patchfile.. the program still seems somewhat > > unstable though, subject to some fairly random crashes :( > > I've actually found the 0.8.0 betas to be more stable than 0.7.6. > Not to mention a LOT faster at decoding binaries. > Well, I suppose I should pipe in here. I've been putting off updating to the 0.8.0-betas since there are, well, beta. However, if they are improving, I'll look into updating the port. Unfortunately, as pan's features have been expanding, it's stability hasn't been so lucky...hopefully, things are improving. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message