LYNX-DEV Re: #38 -- another quickie

[T.E.Dickey]

> > > You may have good reasons to not support that version (and of course you
> > > have no obligation to support *anything*), but at least don't break things
> > > that currently work for folks with a "broken" ncurses version.
> > the configure script for Lynx isn't broken - it merely passes over
> > (does not acknowledge) that 1.9.9e does color 
> 
> But is that reasonable?
> I think it is not.
> (Or call the simple-color-curses stuff
> simple-color-for-only-a-few-selected-curses-versions instead.)
nope. color for System V release 4 curses (the X/Open spec).  Perhaps
extend it to SVr3 curses, which (at least in the form of PDCurses) implements
color in a different manner.

(do you guys still support bug reports against Lynx 2.5 -- there's a lot
more copies of _that_ floating around than 2.6 or 2.7)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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