Fwd: Call to Developers - NewsRog now Open Source!

[Aniway]

I just found this on the Yahoo! Newsrog e-Group. . .

From:  David Rey
Date:  Tue Oct 12, 2004  8:37 am
Subject:  NewsRog goes Open Source

NewsRog is hereby released as Open Source under the GNU General Public License.

Our homepage is http://sourceforge.net/projects/newsrog/ and the sources have been chickened some minutes ago after Jens rearranged them a bit to make future development easier.

Please read the README in the root of the CVS repository. Currently the sources do NOT compile out of the box - they only build with SAS/C and it looks like some makefiles are missing. Most (all?) of the ones that are there do not work, either.

Therefore, this is a call to the developers out there to help into first make the project build, and then convert it to GCC, looking forward to fix the current bugs and eventually port it to OS4, MorphOS or whatever people
fancy :-) The only actual programmer that is currently involved in the project is Jens Langner, and as some of you may know, his plate is already overspilling as it is. Therefore, it's vital that more developers join.

Since I can't be bothered to give yahoogroups another email address to spam me, I have created a new newsrog users mailing lists at freelists.org. Point your browser to http://www.freelists.org/list/newsrog to join it.

Last but not the least, many thanks, Steve, for digging the NR sources up and give others the chance to proceed with the development of the best news client available for the Amiga!


The NewsRog Open Source team

Jens Langner
David Rey

http://sourceforge.net/projects/newsrog/

[wonea]

Always good to see the Amiga community going open source!

[Kent]

I agree with that, it's always good to see Amiga software going open source.  However, it's still sad as to why this powerful news reader's development died to the hands of piracy.  Ages ago, I tried to purchase it but was told by the developer a license was no longer available due to the web site hacking.  NewsRog is without a doubt my favorite news reader for any platform.

:pint:

[Velcro_SP]

Good news, but there's a lot of work to do before the NewsRog project catches up to NewsCoaster.