[227] in NetBSD-Development
Re: lynx for netbsd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Sat Nov 26 08:53:16 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 08:49:18 +0500
To: nocturne@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-outland@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199411260453.XAA11699@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> (nocturne@MIT.EDU)
Wow, a lynx binary for netbsd...
My `short reply' is: Great. I've wanted that for a while now, and the
versions there aren't all from the same source tree anyway. (cat
/mit/outland/README ;-)
The `long reply' is: I used to keep most of the source in
/afs/sipb/project/infoagents, and I (thought that I) had symlinks in
src pointing there (but I've no idea why they wouln't still be there,
so maybe I screwed something up?). Later, when we were low on space
and IS was talking about putting web clients in a much more
`availability required' status than outland could support, I got the
infoagents locker, in the athena cell. What you did is still ok,
though, because I didn't have a netbsd binary for lynx anyway. The
main reason for that is that lynx is something of a moving target
(ukans hired a new person to work on it, who then got hired off by
someone (I think mcom), and then there were outside patches and
`unauthorized beta releases' being done by various people and
collected (I wouldn't say `coordinated') by someone who did a lot of
work on the original project on a volunteer basis (basically, he
maintained the VMS part of the code), and then the UKans people asked
people to stop making unofficial releases, so that things wouldn't
mutate a lot under the group trying to get someone to take over the
dev work, and... well, that was a couple months ago, and I've heard
virtually nothing on it since. I have a large collection of patches
to the latest unofficial beta that I was using, and I haven't cleaned
it up yet. (The way my todo list currently looks, I'm expecting to
hit it sometime in the next two weeks, but probably not in the next
week.)
So, I guess my `short long reply' is: cool. thanks.
chad
