Re: LYNX-DEV Fote's lynx2-6mods.zip is NOT the "development code" set!

[Klaus Weide]

On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:

>       The "development code" set for this round is LynxRP, accessible
> via:  http://lynx.browser.org/
> 
>       Since it presently doesn't build on VMS, Hiram is maintaining
> a "Composite" 2-6updates.zip with replacement files for the "official"
> (September 2, 1996) v2.6 release, that are still suitable for both
> Unix and VMS, and include bug fixes and straightforward enhancements
> that definintely will be in the next "official" release (though may
> still need some more tweaks, as all Lynx code, offically released
> or not, always does 8-).
> 
>       Subir has put up a link to http://www.wfbr.edu/dir/lynx
> where lynx2-6mods.zip resides, and that link is labeled:  "Fote's
> set of v2.6 bug fixes and personal mods"  and that's ALL it is.
> It should not be treated as were the FM zips, but just be used
> for testing by Lynx developers, in the same spirit as others'
> contributed bug fixes and personal mods.  OK?
> 
>       Note also that Klaus's DIRED patch can be removed from
> Subir's patches section, since they're in the Composite now.

Yes, I didn't get around to asking yey.  Subir, would you be so kind...

> Perhaps Klaus might want to post a separate patch with just
> the LYMain.c code for setting the Lynx version string via an
> environment variable, since, for reasons explained previously,
> that can't be included in the official or semi-official
> distributions, but people may want to add it as a site-specific
> mod.

I find that I am not myself using it, and would rather drop it.
Since it is not going to be in any official or semi-official
distribution for the foreseeabl future, it would have to continue
having a separate existence for a long time.  If anyone wants to
give it a home, or just wants to save it, I can wrap it up as a
separate patch and send it (it is only a few lines anyway).  Otherwise 
I will just drop it.

[The patch in question was originally posted by Larry Schwimmer, not
by me.  I had applied it to my local files, and it slipped in when
I prepared the DIRED patches - I will be more careful now to prevent
such things!  Fote and, I trust, Hiram have expurgated the unwanted
changes from their code sets.]

  Klaus

;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE:  Send a mail message to address@hidden
;                  with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
;                  quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;