[gopher] Re: New Gopher server and client

[Benjamin Newman <benn.newman@xxxxxxx>]

Mateusz Viste wrote:
> I would say it depends of personal tastes :-)
> 
> I understand that you will convert text files to rtf/pdf/html....   What 
> charset will you declare in these documents? Will you analyze each file to 
> determine what charset could possibly be used (UTF8, Latin2, ISO-8859-1, 
> ISO-8859-2, KOI8, etc..."? If not, then I see no point in that...
> 
> What if you get a PDF file? Will you convert it to html and text, to allow 
> multiview?
> 
> What will you do with graphic files? Will you convert any file to bmp, jpeg, 
> png, gif, etc...? What if one graphic file contains alpha channels, and the 
> destination format doesn't handle transparency (png -> jpg)?
> 
> Multiview is a nice (well, at least "interesting") feature. However, to be 
> really efficient it has to be done by the administrator, which sets up 
> different versions of a document. Such settings are much work for an admin, 
> compared to just putting a bunch of text files on the server... ;-)
> 
> Best regards,
> Mateusz Viste

Hello

While I do understand Mateusz' concerns, I think that there are 
reasonable defaults.

One other possibility is using make (I would use mk 
<http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/mk.html> (you can get sources for 
UNIX at <http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/>) to automate it. I suppose 
this could be done by the Gopher(+) server just in time, but as they 
say, disk-space is cheap.

In the end if you do not want Gopher+, or this feature of it in 
particular, do not use it.
--
Benn Newman