a warning to would-be nvusers

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 13 February 2004 06:32 pm, dep wrote:
> greets.
>
> nvu, the little "front page" clone recently released as 0.10, comes as a
> tarball -- that does not create its own directory when opened. so if
> you want to inspect the thing -- or, for that matter, to install it
> someplace -- you need to create a directory, dump the thing in there,
> and then open up the tarball. otherwise, it will splatter itself all
> the hell over the current directory.
>
> they haven't gotten the tarball right, which gives me little hope for
> the application itself.
>
> too bad -- it's not really a bad idea, if it puts out decent code.

I've tried it (after getting burned by the tarball)  and I think it has a lot 
of promise.   I was impressed.


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