[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: LYNX-DEV Old question - 2-4-2 vs 2-4-FM
From: |
Foteos Macrides |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Old question - 2-4-2 vs 2-4-FM |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:09:04 -0500 (EST) |
Al Gilman <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Wayne Buttles <address@hidden>
>
> If the true answer is a faq, just point me in the right direction. I have
> seen a lot of talk while searching through the archives, but I could never
> find the answer. Which came first, lynx 2-4-2 or 2-4-FM? I am kind of
> cloudy on when `FM' started and if other development stopped or if there
> were two versions in the works for a period of time.
>
>There was a lot of concurrency. Fote did [a lot of] the initial
>VMS port.
I did the VMS port of Lynx2-1, and kept up the VMS port while
Lou continued the Unix development through Lynx2-3, i.e., until he
graduated and left in May 1994. In keeping up the port, I also picked
up familarity with the for-Unix code, and of course, the common code,
so at some point I ended up with an account at UKans where Lou and I
would exchange the code and make sure it was OK for both Unix and VMS
before making it available generally.
> I don't know when exactly he started using the FM
>suffix but it goes back into the time period when there was
>material progress still being made at UKans. But by the time of
>2.3.8, we have a Kansas version number which is a relabel of the
>-FM version with essentially no local [Kansas] contribution. [...]
When Lou graduated and left, Garrett Blythe, who had done
DOSLynx, also became in charge of the Unix/VMS distribution.
Garrett put out Lynx2-3-1 in August 1994, in conjuction with
leaving UKans, but it was still too buggy to use in production.
Lynx2-3-2 through Lynx2-3-7 were "patch levels" handled by me --
really as patches to Lynx2-3 -- and that's when I developed the
conviction that patches handled as patches rather than file sets
don't work out well other than for developers. So Lynx2-3-7 was
archived at UKans as a complete file set.
Subsequent develpment code was labeled Lynx2-3FM and distributed
as daily updates of a complete file set, because I couldn't cope with
the confusion and foul ups associated with patches for non-developers.
Fote
=========================================================================
Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research
address@hidden 222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545
=========================================================================
;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a mail message to address@hidden
; with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
; quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;