Re: LYNX-DEV Re: todo-list question

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 07:52:22AM -0500, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> > I was wondering why leave entries in the to do list that are completed?
> > For instance, you have:
> > WHERE_IS text search could not reliably find things like the text
> > which is the VALUE of a SUBMIT button.
> >       This is fixed now.
> > Also, I notice comments about sending trace output to a file - that's
> > done now.  Are you just waiting for someone to let you know it's done?
> 
> Yes, I'd like someone else to tell me a feature is working in both
> branches of Lynx (FM/ac) before I remove it. Marking a feature as
> "done" or "working" rather than deleting it may also show we are making
> progress, not just lists.
> 
> So far, the following have reported as being "done":
> 
> 1) WHERE_IS text search could not reliably find...
> 
> 2) sending trace output to a file
That's "done" in the sense that you can redirect stderr.  But there's problems
with the redirection mechanism.
 
> 3) Internalisation / Character translation
>    (Yes, it is spelled right for the Brits...)
> 
> 4) Convert source code filenames to MS-DOS's 8.3 format
There are some VMS-specific ones that aren't 8.3 unique - I didn't see a
need to change that (since they're not used there).
 
> I'm not sure I agree with (3), since the following message just came in:
I started working through that last night: about 80% of the text is comments,
so it doesn't look like it'll take long to complete.  (I guess that's a "light"
mess).
 
> Author: Leonid Pauzner <address@hidden>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 10:39:27PM +0300, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> > I just check ac108,
> > there is a light mess of charset names against 2.7.2 found,
> > this is because ac108 still implement several charsets
> > from LYCharSet.c and GridText.c but not from unicode staff.
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Marvin the Paranoid Android.
> 


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