Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynxlet - a Mac OS X launcher application for Lynx

[Chuck Houpt]

> is lynxlet currently:
>
> (a) a portable/static-linked app?  i.e., does it require any
> OSX-installed libs?  can it be installed on a USB-keychain, e.g.?

Lynxlet's only requirement is a default install of Mac OS X 10.2+ - 
no special libraries, etc. It should be able to run from wherever 
regular applications can run (network drives, CDs, zips, thumb 
drives, etc). Note, I haven't done exhaustive testing, so there might 
be some issues I've missed.

> (b) is src available so that we can wrap the front-end around
> our/preferred build (e.g., diff config optins ...)?

I'm still figuring out how to release the source...

However, it is simple to install a new version of Lynx in Lynxlet's 
bundle/package. All the interesting files are in the application's 
resource folder: Lynxlet.app/Contents/Resources:

lynx/ - lynx install directory (contains bin/lynx and lib/lynx_help/).
termlet - the shell script that launches lynx after setting up some env vars.
lynxlet.cfg - the config file (referenced in termlet).
lynxlet.html - the default page (referenced in termlet).

To install a new lynx, just replace the lynx install directory, and 
modify the termlet script and config files as desired.

The one caveat is that help probably won't work, because the one 
small change I had to make to lynx 2.8.5 was to add support for a 
LYNX_HELPFILE environment variable, so the help files could be 
located at runtime.

Cheers - Chuck