How about finally replacing GNATS?

Erik Cederstrand erik at cederstrand.dk
Tue Oct 30 16:45:16 UTC 2012


Den 30/10/2012 kl. 16.51 skrev Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:

> On 30 October 2012 03:06, Erik Cederstrand <erik at cederstrand.dk> wrote:
> 
>> Apart from running uname -a, what does send-pr offer on a machine without HTTP access compared to just filling out the send-pr form on a machine that does have HTTP access?
> 
> Being able to do it offline, and then having it send when you plug
> into the network :-)
> 
> You realise SMTP, like NNTP/usenet, is really good at "partially offline" modes?

Yes. I thought we were talking about machines with permanently firewalled outgoing port 80.

I'm not suggesting send-pr should go. I even provided a script to keep using it with Bugzilla. I'm just curious what's so great about it in 2012. Offline is a good argument, and HTTP sucks at offline.

Erik


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