Re: [NTLK] The (Not quite ready yet) newtontracker.

From: Grant [Condimental] Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 23:53:51 EDT


In a previous message, carpman typed vigorously:

>Digging for hours in front of a CRT for newton apps becomes less fun every=
 
>time I do it. Besides the fact that most of the information about apps is
>out of date, or was wrong in the first place, it makes my eyes hurt. Being
>cheap as I am, insetead of buying a better monitor, I have (am) built
>(building) newtontracker.net

First of all, thank you carpman, whoever you are, for starting up another
project supporting the Newton community at large.

Secondly, I see a couple of opportunities here:

How about hooking in to the downloadable content found on the UNNA site
as a starting point for the tracker? The missing piece in this case would
be descriptive text for each piece of software. Filling in this
information would be a fairly mammoth task which might involve parsing
the read me files included in many of the archives. Daunting? Yes.
Impossible? Not really.

Any thoughts on this Victor? I think you had been tossing around the idea
of a more descriptive, text-based front end for UNNA at one time. Or was
that another conversation?

Additionally, would there be any benefit in contacting Jakob Peterh=E4nsel
of DNUG and merging the old Newton Versions database into
newtontracker.net? There was a ton of information (historical and
otherwise) in that database, and we have unfortunately been without it
for nearly two years now.

     http://www.dnug.dk/versions/

If someone is interested in following this one up (I already have too
many thing on my plate at the moment...), the last contact info I have
for Jakob are these two email addresses. The second one is the most
current.

     info_at_dnug.dk
     jakob_at_hjemme.dk

Just a couple of things to chew on.

g.

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