Re: LYNX-DEV LYMessages_en.h translation

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Al Gilman wrote:

> to follow up on what T.E.Dickey said:
> [Henry Nelson]
> > > I guess I'm fighting a losing battle, but I sure would like to see that 
> > > magic number < 1.44 for the distribution.  Been fighting for over a year, 
> > > so not much sense in giving up now :). 
> [Tom Dickey]
> > I don't see any reason to put them in the main distribution (just make them
> > available as an add-on package).
> One potential danger is that what doesn't get distributed doesn't
> get used, and falls out of sync quietly so that you don't fix it
> and when you do need it, it doesn't work.
> 
> I would hope Henry's one-floppy core distribution can become a
> standard capability of our distribution setup, but maybe not the
> default.
> 
> Did I hear Jim Spath mutter something about son-of-patch-o-matic?

No :-).  I suggested that "debit," the script that checks the distribution
files out, could create full and not-full sets if people want them.  It
already creates the breakout directory. 
 
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