On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:28:03AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Keith Bowes dixit: > > >It's not that important. It's just there have been so many improvements > >to Lynx since 2.8.7 and I'd love for a better build to be available in > >distributions. That's all. > > Many distributions carry the current development versions as primary > (MirBSD, MirPorts, Debian) or alternative (I think Gentoo does that) > packages. Development of Lynx (and most other software from Tom) is > so stable that -current versions are better than many other software's > released versions, after all.
And then some don't update their ports/packages. (And some apply the rule unevenly updating ports for weekly patches of some programs and ignoring minor versions of others ;-) My impression is that about half of the distributions are 2.8.7rel.1 Gauging the volume of change since 2.8.7rel.1, it seems that I've about 2/3 of the volume versus the previous release, and a little over 2/3 of the elapsed time. That fits in my comment that there probably should be a couple more development patches - to address some of the things that can't be done early in a cycle because I'm fixing things that only get reported _after_ a major release... -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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