Re: lynx-dev GNKSA review of Lynx 2.8

[T.E.Dickey]

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> > As has been mentioned before, features in lynx are added or removed on a 
> > volunteer basis.  If you wish to see a change in lynx, feel free to submit 
>  
> That's also true of trn, which is probably the basis of most of the good 
> feature in the GNKSA.  What this really demonstrates is the undesirability 
> of giving into the pressure to make Lynx do everything; the Unix component 
> approach results in people being able to concentrate their effort on one 
> component and get that to do a single job very well, whereas 5% of the 
> effort on Lynx news is never going to create a trn. 
exactly - it's worth making what Lynx does work correctly, but not a good
way to spend time making it look like the newsreader programs that are the
model for someone's checklist of "required" features.

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