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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Question about the FAQ
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Jaime E . Villate |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Question about the FAQ |
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Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:36:47 +0100 |
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:50:49AM +0200, Vadim wrote:
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> Hello, I and a friend have already started preliminar work on a GPL'd
> chat sever that requires encryption. We are considering hosting it on
> Savannah. We have no problems with the requirements, excepting with
> this part from step 5:
>
> "If a GNU program wants to be extensible, it should use GUILE (
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html ) as the programming
> language for extensibility--that is the GNU standard extensibility
> package. If the program doesn't use GUILE today, at least there
> should be a firm plan to support it in the future."
That requirement is only for packages of the GNU project and not for all
packages hosted in Savannah.
> Our server is going to be extensible, however, at least the first
> version is going to be written in Perl. This is because we want to
> try first some ideas writing them in an easier language. If the
> result is good enough and we see people like it, we'll consider
> rewriting it in C. However, our knowledge of C isn't very good yet,
> so it could take a while.
>
> The server itself is intended to be used by small online communities,
> and not as a replacement of IRC, so scalability shouldn't be a big
> problem.
>
> Would it be okay to host the project on Savannah?
Sure. Please submit it and don't forget to give a URL to any existing version
or if you haven't written any code yet, please state that clearly.
Cheers,
Jaime
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