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
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.)
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