Re: lynx-dev status

[dickey]

> 
> >> > I don't know of any serious reproducible bugs.  Aside from the urge to 
> >> > redesign everything, does anyone have a bug that would prevent release? 
> >> 
> We need to prepare a new "features" pre-release page, 
> keep 2.8 features info but preserve a link to complete 2.7.2 page 
> as the latest unsupported code by FM 

I have a draft release page (which I'll revise once more), in

        http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-1

It links to 2-8, which links to 2.7.2

> (we probably still have problems introduced by Klaus). 

probably. (as well as fixing an equal number of problems made by Fote - but
those are mainly in areas dealing with portability/maintainability).
  
> Also I got several coredumps recently from pre10 (NSL-FORK on Linux) 
> so I want to know whether it is fixed or not. 
>  
> >> I've sent a few patches since pre11, all for things that should be 
> >> quickfixed -- are those going to be in pre12/rel? 

I've seen 2-3 separate reports of core dumps over the past month which I
cannot reproduce.  There were 3-4 which gave me enough clues to add some
checks (e.g., for null pointers), and I've put in fixes for those.  But I
cannot say how many more there are (the rate of reporting is all that I
have to go on).

But this is also a problem with the older versions - once you know where
the problems are, it's simple to break the program.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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