[gopher] spreading gopher

[Mike Hebel]

On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:43 PM 4/27/10, Wesley Teal wrote:

> We need to get Gopher into the core of more
> things to continue to infect virally.
>
> I know someone here was thinking of submitting patches to add it  
> back to
> cURL. This would be a really great thing. Who was planning on doing  
> that?
>
> There is still kio_slave for Konqueror, but there is nothing for  
> Chrome.
>
> I should try to get my AIR-based client off the ground again. It  
> works,
> but it has no real interface of any sort.
>
> We need to get gopher to where people live. Even if we're not the core
> part of popular clients, we should still be an option.
>
> I know not a lot of people necessarily use it, but OmniWeb (for the  
> Mac) supports gopher, although it can't handle searches currently.   
> It would be nice if we could get the project to implement full  
> gopher support.
>
> There's also Mateusz's Windows gopher/gopher+ client.
>
> There's also snarf, although it would be nice to see gopher in cURL  
> too and even wget for that matter.
>
> There's even a shell script out there that browses gopherspace for  
> the command line junkie:
> gopher://sdf.org/0/users/yargo/scripts/nago


Something tells me this is a good opportunity to start fresh.

I'm not a programmer but is there one development platform that  
crosses 'nix, Linux, Windows, and Mac that could be used to start a  
new client build?

Curse my lack of programming skills. :-(

--
Mike


"All we wanna do is eat your brains! We're not unreasonable, I mean no  
one's gonna eat your eyes." - Re: Brains, Jonathan Coultan