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Subject: NNCP for android?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 04:19:00 -0000 (UTC)
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For the past 2 years I've been working on a project that does some of
the things NNCP claims to do (I say claims because I haven't tried it
yet, I believe it does but I'm still learning). I was inspired by what
I'd read about UUCP, and thought it would be pretty cool to build
something like that again, but with some additional goals.

While the scope of my idea was much larger than NNCP, I never completed
it. I didn't even know what NNCP was until yesterday. 

My project was huge in scope, and I wrote many partial prototypes only
to throw them away (not quite right... redo) and start over. I want my
final version to be in C, not golang though. (latest toss away prototype
is in python. I hate python. But it is faster to work in than C)

So NNCP is kind of bittersweet. It's nice to see it, and I think it
could serve a role in my project. In fact, it could really help a lot.

But <sigh> it means I'll have to throw away a lot of my code, re-think
a lot of things and start all over again. Maybe some decade I'll finally
have something to release to the public.. (Any plans on doing a C
version some day, ideally as a library you can link to?)

Anyway, I'm wondering if there are any plans anywhere to port NNCP over
to the Android phone? Seems like it could be a nice tool for syncing
data from your desktop. Kind of like physical media, sync up at a
friends and go home to upload to computer.

Just a thought. I'm not an Android developer myself.

I'm really looking forward to the day when someone hacks a package
manager, archlinux or freebsd or whatever to use NNCP for retrieving
packages. I could totally see FreeBSD ports using it. 

I wish NNCP the best of luck, and plan on learning more about it in the
next week or so. It's probably the coolest thing I've seen over the
past 2 years!  But I'm a little jealous. LOL!

Thanks to the developer(s) of NNCP. Truly cool stuff.