[Pan-users] Re: pcre error (was: undefined reference to iconv)

[Duncan]

"arnuld uttre" <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden,
excerpted below, on  Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:23:26 +0530:

> Ini the end, its the 2nd  longest email I have ever got on some mailing
> list. You do know a lot about PAN history. I think your reply needs to
> be something like Sticky :)

... And I only know about it from 0.11.something, back when a dependency 
was GNOME (1.x).  By then Charles had been developing it for some time.  
I know nothing of the real early stuff, pre-late-2001, IIRC.  (FWIW I got 
serious about and switched to Linux when eXPrivacy came out, starting the 
switch that weekend after having prepared for it since I first heard 
about the authorization scheme.  That was late 2001.  It took me ~90 days 
to get all the apps I wanted to use in Linux as parallels for the MS 
based ones figured out and get everything including my then three 17" 
monitors working.  Pan was the news app I settled on, KDE was the desktop 
and most other apps were KDE based.)

I've always wondered about the original author, what he was like, if PAN 
was GNOME based or pre-GNOME back then, why he quit, etc.  He's not even 
listed in the rewrite any more, as it is just that, a rewrite, tho if it 
were me I'd still credit him for the original code.  But it's not me...

BTW, PAN originally stood for "Pimp-Ass Newsreader", putting an emphasis 
on where it always intended to go but hasn't yet reached, but as with 
many "politically incorrect" names, that has been deemphasized as Linux 
and free/libre and open source software has targeted the mainstream.  As 
a result, tho I think I was the only one doing it, up until the rewrite, 
I alway wrote it as PAN unless I was talking the executable file itself, 
since the filename is lowercase.  But with the announcement of the 
rewrite and release of 0.90, I finally gave it up as well, and now that's 
a bit of trivia few know any more.

As for the original thread topic, I'll look into it and hope to reply 
later, if we're lucky, with a link to an rpm you can try. =:^)

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