Re: LYNX-DEV I18N work to submit (fwd)

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> > CHANGES2-3, or even CHANGES2-6, for that matter?  Anyone really looked at
> > what's in the `doc' directory?
> I do - since there's no other development history other than email archives.

I was not even suggesting that they be destroyed or lost.  I was only
suggesting that they be moved out of the source distribution into a new
set of "historical" and less essential documents, documents that need
be downloaded by any particular site only once.  You as a developer
of course would be concerned about the CHANGES* documents, but I was
as much concerned about the entire "util" and "doc" directories.

Perhaps I can suggest not splitting the current distribution, but rather
forming a source+compilation essentials distribution.

> that have an _excessive_ number of files, e.g., more than 500, it's not an

Sticks and stones may break my bones ...  No really, for you, and I'm
sure the majority of people on the list having a cluttered top directory
is no big deal.  But I remember myself a year and a half ago.  I might
have given up just doing my first ever breakout of a compressed-tarred
distribution.  Why, if it doesn't HAVE to be that way?

> > My point is once you've got it, it's history.  Why waste band width and
[...]
> I work mostly from patches...

A point well taken.  If _http_ is stable for you and doesn't time out
all the time, then go for it:
        http://www.slcc.edu/cgi-bin/lynx/patch/
; it's great.

__Henry

P.S.
user% ls -l
-rw-------  1 user     8728 Aug 29 20:51 lynx2.7.1--2.7.1ac-0.57.diff.gz
                       ^^^^
Just great.  (Usually I do better than that at almost 9PM.)
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