[gopher] Gopher+ support in the community

[R.A.Pavlov]

On 23.04.2015 01:18, Kevin Veroneau wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm curious to know how many widely used Gopher clients properly support
> Gopher+ and what's the communities general view about supporting it.

I like gopher+ and would be happy to see it alive, although now it is 
fully supported AFAIK only in the UMN server (undeservedly discontinued) 
and client (but their support is close to perfect and can be considered 
a reference implementation).

One should notice however that gopher+ is just an extension. It has 
never been and should not be obligatory, and nothing can prevent from 
inventing other extensions (provided that support can be added to the 
clients) in a way similar to web browser extensions. Would be nice if 
gopher+ could be added as a plugin (library) to the existing clients 
like Lynx or Overbite.

>
> I personally haven't used any Gopher+ features, and my current
> GopherSpace doesn't use it either. How many of your gopherspaces have
> Gopher+ support?
>
> I'm also a tad curious on working with "gophers://", Gopher over TLS.
> it'd be easy to enable on a gopher server, but no clients currently
> support it.
>
> On that note about Gopher clients, I did mention awhile back that I was
> planning on developing a more modern stand alone gopher client for PCs.
> So if I made a new client, I'd add Gopher over TLS support for kicks,
> and depending on overall support, maybe Gopher+ support. OverbiteFF
> doesn't do Gopher+ it seems(from reading it's source) and neither does
> the android client...
>
> One last question... what is your Gopher client of choice, and why?
>
> Kevin.
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
>
>
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