[CS-FSLUG] Adopt a program?

Christopher Rose kf6snj at lycos.com
Fri Oct 8 21:29:08 CDT 2004


I don't know much about Java, but I might be interested in learning more. Please tell me more about Gned and how it works. I might trying scripting it into my Grey Cat Linux Machine, if it seems like something that I am capable of.

Pax,

Christopher


----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:29:33 -0600
To: christiansource at ofb.biz
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Adopt a program

> I'm wondering if anyone here would like to take over development of Gned 
> since I'm no longer interested in using Java as one of my main 
> programming languages at the time, its fairly simple and straightforward 
> and I personally think I did a good job keeping the code nearly 
> organized and clean.
> 
> I had lots of fun actually working on the program, I learned a lot from 
> debugging it and in the end I think it turned out to be a fairly decent 
> little editor even if there it doesn't have as many features as most 
> editors and even lacks some Windows Notepad has. I would like to see 
> someone decide they want to continue working on the program even if its 
> just for experimentation or, like myself at the time I wrote it, to get 
> better with Java. If someone more experienced or more motivated then 
> myself were to give it a try they could probably add syntax highlighting 
> and give the editor a real fighting chance at least as far as simple 
> Windows editors go. I'd be more then happy to continue contributing code 
> for the editor from time to time over the next few months or perhaps 
> even years depending on how long I can remember Java for :-) but I don't 
> have time to make it one of my main applications now that I'm moving on 
> to other programming languages.
> 
> Let me know if you are interested, I'll send you a copy of all the 
> versions of Gned that I still have going as far back as before 1.0 if I 
> didn't lose any more versions of it, in one of them a major chunk of the 
> files were gone so I backported them from the next version up, this may 
> cause some inconsistency but that was with with one of the 1.2.x 
> versions so it shouldn't matter much anyway. I also had a list of bugs 
> found in each version and I'd be glad to include if it I still have it 
> along with freshly made JavaDocs for version 1.4.1 available on request.
> 
> If anyone here is interested you can either reply to me on the list or 
> e-mail me personally if you prefer.
> 
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