Re: lynx-dev progress on pre.2

[purslow]

040115 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I'm working concurrently on builds for both lynx and ncurses.
> With lynx, there is one platform where I found a bug 
> (and the machine has no debugger).  My plan is to work on that Saturday,
> after resolving some other issues with ncurses.
> The   lynx2.8.5dev.17d.patch.gz  in   ftp://invisible-island.net/temp
> is my current working set of changes.  There are some doc changes
> to-do, but (aside from the bug mentioned), no other coding fixes.

may i suggest a change in version numbering ?

the 'dev' versions which have been produced during the past few years
-- 2.8.5dev.1 ... 4 ... 5 ... 17 --
correspond to what other projects would call eg
   2.8.6 ... 9 ... 10 ... 22 .
let's call the imminent version  2.9  rather than  2.8.5 ,
then call what wb (in Lynx trad'n)  2.8.6dev.1  more simply  2.9.1 ;
occasionally, there mb a special bugfix version eg  2.9.5.1 .

this shd result in distros like Gentoo updating their Lynxes more often.

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