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lynx-dev re: why not --disable-news
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Webmaster Jim |
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lynx-dev re: why not --disable-news |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:27:15 -0500 |
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:48:57PM -0500, John Bley wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Webmaster Jim wrote:
>
> > > a "no frills" option can be implemented it means that a newer version of
> > > lynx has a better chance of fitting.
> > Another snip to the code "--disable-news." This one is more ambitious,
> Great, thanks!
>
> > "--disable-ftp" is feasible, but more useful to keep (IMHO).
> I'd agree, except that my example of using lynx on a single-floppy system
> (LOAF: http://www.ecks.org/loaf/) already includes ftp anyway. Perhaps
> after --disable fever subsides, we can agree on smart defaults for a
> --no-frills option.
If someone someone could verify the finger and news removal are good
patches, I can work on configuration for disabling FTP code from the
lynx image.
> Meanwhile, I'm busy investigating dead code and have a question: Are
> all these empty HText_* functions here for any particular reason?
> Nothing's even calling into them. There are even several non-empty
> HText_ functions that aren't ever getting called.
Besides dead code, are there places that have repeated code that would
better be modularized (besides *Main*)?
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- Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/07
- Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news, John Bley, 1999/03/08
- lynx-dev Dead code removal (was: Re: why not --disable-news), Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, John Bley, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, Philip Webb, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, Klaus Weide, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Dead code removal, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/03/09
- Re: lynx-dev why not --disable-news, mattack, 1999/03/08
- lynx-dev Re: dead code, John Bley, 1999/03/08
- lynx-dev re: why not --disable-news,
Webmaster Jim <=
- lynx-dev Re: dead code removal, John Bley, 1999/03/08
- lynx-dev Q: Proxy Automatic Configuration, Klaus Peter Wegge, 1999/03/08
- Re: lynx-dev Q: Proxy Automatic Configuration, Sergey Svishchev, 1999/03/09
- Re: lynx-dev Q: Proxy Automatic Configuration, David Woolley, 1999/03/10
- Re: lynx-dev re: why not --disable-news, brian j pardy, 1999/03/08