Michael Drake wrote on 10 Oct: > Development builds are available again from the NetSurf web site.
I wonder if it would be possible, please, to include a simple textfile inside the zip that we download, stating the date when the contents of !Boot and !System actually had the most recent change. As far as I can make out, changes in !Boot and !System (ie, to Unicode and to the modules Iconv, SharedULib, Tinct and URI) happen only infrequently, but the rebuild process puts a meaningless new datestamp on the files. For example, in the most recent download (#418), the module !System.310.Modules.Network.URI is datestamped 2012-10-02 whereas that module's internal date is 2006-05-20. Other internal dates: Iconv 2011-01-04, SharedULib 2006-04-10, Tinct 2009-04-25. The Unicode items carry no believable date information at all. I suggest this simple textfile stating a "latest change" date because it's tedious to go through the process of merging !Boot and !System on three separate machines every time a new test build of Netsurf is installed, when in fact nothing has changed. -- Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk See you at London? www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk October 27
