lynx-dev moving toward a release

[brian j pardy]

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> > one of my small self-chosen roles is First-aid Help Desk 
> > & we regularly get innocent users who have been bitten by this one: 
> > at present there's no help for them, so feel even more encouraged. 
> > 2-8-3dev.nn will probably be the place to start adding JS, 
> > maybe  c 2 mths  from now, but TD knows best about timing, of course. 
> 
> well, I have my opinions - we can move toward a release, focusing on
> filling in loose details in the ongoing threads of development (gettext,
> buffer overflows from my viewpoint, character sets and cookies from
> Klaus, LP and BJP).  The four programs I'm working on right now are
> all in a similar point of the cycle (and it's hard to work on concurrent
> releases).

I'm going to be nearly completely out of the loop for an indefinite 
amount of time beginning 14 Mar at latest, hopefully I should at least 
have net.access by April, but I don't know what kind of time I'll have.

Something to keep in mind, at least.

Regarding the cookie issues, here's what I know remains:
    * I have a couple patches against dev.17, I think you have all of
      them (memory leaks, something that LV found and I patched but
      I've completely forgotten)
    * We need documentation of the new options in lynx_help and maybe
      other places.  I have sparse documentation in .lynxrc, if someone
      can come up with better wordings I'd appreciate it,
    * The thing Klaus just brought up about not storing NULL valued 
      cookies, I'm not sure if we want it or not,
    * (maybe unimportant) Cookie Jar Page handling of the new sets
      for cookie validity checking (maybe options page too?  Maybe not.)

Is there anything I'm missing?  This may not be too much work, but my
available coding time is dwindling miserably.

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