Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> Okay, I don't "need" it.  But, _it's already there_, and I WANT it.
> What's wrong with that?  I can't see that taking the option out is
> any easier than modifying it's documentation.  Using it you get a
> savings of 22Kb+ on each file system Lynx is installed.
>                     ~~~~

I believe you could order a custom version of Lynx without all the features
you don't want/need. It would be a lot smaller... :-)

Or you could just compress your copie(s) of Lynx with gzexe. It gives more
than 50% reduction on Lynx.

> > but the configure option is already obsolete.
> 
> It is NOT obsolete, and will not become obsolete until the old code
> is removed.

The code is not "experimental" anymore and you can choose the type of
options menu in lynx.cfg, so there's no reason to keep the configure option.

> This has to do with the logic Tom used for the option. The option
> *removes* the OLD code. It does NOT enable the new code.

Another reason for removing the enable-forms-options from configure.

> (I do want to keep the old code a bit longer until I've satisfied myself
> that the forms code is for sure the way to go.

And I want it to be kept forever. I've already decided that for me the
non-forms options menu is "the way to go".

> Even the author of the code had reservations about it's security.)

Reservations about the security of the options menu?! Please explain.

Ismael
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