Re: The future of PyGopherd
It was thus said that the Great John Goerzen once stated:
> Hi folks,
>
> With the deprecation of Python 2, pygopherd needs some help to be ported
> to Python 3. Or, perhaps, something else.
>
> I originally wrote PyGopherd with the goal of being a replacement for
> UMN gopherd. UMN gopherd has some interesting dotfile formats that are
> used for providing metadata and links.
[ snip ]
> However, I have found that my heart is really not into fighting with
> Python 3 on this.
>
> I am wondering:
>
> 1) Would anybody be interested in taking over maintaining pygopherd,
> beginning with the port to Python 3?
>
> 2) Would anybody be interested in adding UMN gopherd metadata support to
> another server? (there was some discussion in IRC about geobyidae doing
> this but I'm unsure how that progressed)
I would be willing to take a look and possibly add such support to my own
gopher server port70 [1] (written in Lua).
-spc
[1] https://github.com/spc476/port70
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