Re: LYNX-DEV Composite patch set with Rob's Color-style patches...ouch.

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Audin Malmin wrote:

> Arrgh...  Yesterday I tried to compile a composite lynx with both the 
> Composite patch set and Rob's Color-style patches...  So I grabbed a copy
> of lynx2-6, unzipped the composite patch set over the top of it, and aplied
> robs color patches to it...  The patches applied allright, (according to
> patch, anyway), however, the code that was generated was not at all correct...
> I played with it for about two hours trying to clean it up enough to where
> it would compile, but it's beyond my abilities...

Unfotunately, the composite is no longer compatible with the color styles
patch.

>       So, is there any chance of getting a color-styles patch against a newer
> version of the composite set?

It's a good possibility.  Rob posted a day or two ago that he now has one
day a week to work on Lynx and only Lynx and that he has nailed down some
other problems in the styles mods dealing with lists and that he hopes to
have another patch out RSN (Real Soon Now).

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