Re: LYNX-DEV Re: #38 -- another quickie

[T.E.Dickey]

> The normal linux user, including somebody compiling lynx on linux,
> will not be aware of the level of compliance of his/her ncurses version
> with some spec with an obscure (to many) name or acronym.  I certainly
> wasn't.
> 
> So if the plan is to not support "(simple) color" with a very popular and
> widely used incarnation of ncurses -- Ok, but state it clearly then,
> in a way that people not familiar with details of ncurses history and
> conformance details etc. will understand.  Otherwise people will *expect*
> ncurses-color for lynx to work with their version of ncurses.  Not an
> unreasonable expectation since many color programs *do* work with
> ncurses1.9.9e or similar.
to refresh my memory (and to see how bad the color combinations get),
I just built a copy of Lynx with 1.9.9e:

        it dumps core during initialization

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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