Re: lynx-dev lynx.cfg bloat (was various fixes)

[Leonid Pauzner]

22-Aug-99 11:16 Mike Castle wrote:

> I seem to remember this conversation coming up before several years ago
> (probably around 1996 or earlier).

> I thought the answer at the time was "all new lynx.cfg items should be
> placed at the bottom of the file so that admins, when they upgrade, can
> easily see what new items may need to be tweaked".

> I want to say it was Fote who made that comment, but I can't be sure.

Currently we have lynxcfg_toc.html resided on Vlad's homepage
with a link to cfg_history.html where all new options added by XXX release
listed explicitely. Not in lynx.cfg but at least we have a pointer now.

> That does, of course, have the effect of making it more difficult for a new
> user to install and configure lynx, but at least at that time, few new
> people were installing lynx; the home unix craze wasn't quite up to the