[drats_users] D-RATS 0.3.0-alpha3

[IZ5FSA, Leo]

2009/3/6 Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com>:
> I suppose that I could try to come up with something that is the reverse
> of the map downloader which would let you clear anything not within X
> miles of a center point...
>
Yes, this is the right way!


> Do people actually have trouble with the amount of space the maps take
> up on disk?  I have 550 tiles cached on my system from a variety of
> places, including my entire local area and it only takes up 116MB, which
> is almost unnoticeable to me.
>
On a netbook with solid state disk... may be!


>> Last but not the least: I need to make my D-RATS station a BBS
>> repository for friends, so I need to upload bulletin and private
>> messages from a BBS and store them into my form folders and then
>> forward to friends:
>>   -  personals msgs if they are "heared on the air";
>>   -  bulletins "on demand/by request".
>
> I know, I'm working on this.  The move from "forms" to "messages" is
> hopefully going to facilitate this.  I plan to add something like a
> "remote folder" in the folder list which will allow you to check for
> remote messages on another system like an IMAP folder.  I haven't worked
> out all the details of this yet and am concentrating on getting 0.3
> usable as a whole before I get too far into the business of adding
> significant extra features like that.
>
Yes, the first 0.3 stable version is the first milestone.
I'll give you a more detailed requirements for my "plugin" idea.


73s de Leo, IZ5FSA