[gopher] New stand-alone Gopher client (fwd)

[James Mills]

I came across both of these (as a fellow Pythonista myself!) and both work
fairly well (at least on my recent Macbook).

Good to see alternative clients springing up!

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
wrote:

> Forwarded for folks' interest.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Felix -----
>
> From felix at plesoianu.ro  Sun Aug 21 11:31:40 2016
>
> Hi there!
>
> Apologies for the prolonged silence. Waning interest in Pocket Gopher
> coincided with a bad time in my life, so I dropped the ball for a few
> years. Now I'm back, not least thanks to that recent article on
> www.minnpost.com, but as feature phones have fallen by the wayside,
> there's little point in continuing with my old client. So I decided to
> make a new one.
>
> Gophersnake is written in Python and Tkinter, so it's inherently
> portable (should run out of the box on most Linux and Mac boxes). It's
> also stand-alone, modern-looking, and like its predecessor offers the
> user a decent set of starting points. All this should make Gopher more
> visible to newcomers than a browser plugin. It's still at a very early
> stage, but I'll keep poking at it. And just in case anyone shows more
> than a passing interest, I put it on GitHub for now:
> https://github.com/felixplesoianu/gophersnake -- its nature also makes
> it easier to hack and maintain. So, hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Felix
>
> P.S. There's another similar client out there:
> https://github.com/avysk/suck-o-rama
>
> ----- End of forwarded message from Felix -----
>
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