Subj : Re: synchronet needs a rewrite
To   : tidux
From : Gandolf
Date : Fri May 10 2019 07:17 pm

Synchronet is open-source.
https://www.synchro.net/docs/source.html
You got a problem with the code?
Feel free to fix it yourself.


On 4/30/19 9:22 PM, tidux wrote:
> Synchronet currently hard-depends on libmozjs 1.85, which will not run on 64-bit ARM.
> This is because the old version of mozjs makes incorrect assumptions about 48-bit vs
> 64-bit address spaces in NaN handling, which aarch64 and sparc64 violate.  Newer mozjs
> versions are written in C++ rather than C, which means rewriting any piece of the software
> that touches JS.  Additionally, the SSH library on the Win32 version is dangerously out of
> date, offering zero cipher overlap with modern OpenSSH versions.  Finally, the number of
> systems that understand cp437 natively is plummeting, and so the UI should probably offer a
> UTF-8 option.
>

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