On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 07:21:17PM -0400, Travis Siegel wrote: > For what it's worth, I've been using 2.9.0 since version dev 5, and I've not > encountered any major bugs with it. I'm fairly confident it will be plenty > stable enough for your use. > > It's possible you'll find something else thatwon't do the trick for you, but > it's plenty stable enough for everyday use. > > > On 11/1/2022 11:00 AM, Mouse wrote: > > The lynx I've been using - 2.8, from 1999 - started exhibiting a > > disturbing failure mode, today: I got "lynx in free(): warning: chunk > > is already free.", indicating a memory-management bug, and, in at least > > one session, got a coredump (ditto, but even more so). > > > > I could just treat this as a debugging exercise. But I wanted to at > > least look at version-jumping instead. It appears to me that the > > latest release is 2.8.9, with 2.9.0 being still in development > > versions. But a lot of development versions, especially for > > open-source software, are plenty usable enough. And I notice that > > 2.9.0dev looks relatively stable; the last-change time I see is > > 2021-08-07. So, my question is, is 2.9.0 in good enough shape that I
2.9.0dev.10 is the latest development release: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html#v2.9.0dev.10 There's a dozen commits past that https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots but I'm busy with a different upgrade. The main difference between those is the number of platforms on which I've built/tested (snapshots, 2-3, development 5-10, release 25-30). ymmv > > should (FWVO "should") use it, or would 2.8.9 be better? (Of course, > > it's possible that either one has some property that will render it > > unsuitable for my purposes, but I figured I should at least look into > > it.) > > > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > > \ / Ribbon Campaign > > X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org > > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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