On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Jim Spath wrote:

> There are 2 lynx packages, lynx and lynx-current. My last sup (June
> 23rd) shows lynx to include lynx-2.8.2, and lynx-current to include
> lynx-2.8.3. The former includes a IPV6 directory, while the latter does
> not. I am unclear as to what the difference is. Lynx-current should
> probably include lynx-2.8.4 dev by now.

The lynx-current package also has the MoxieNet SSL patches. Assuming that
it will be OK to distribute crypto binaries after October, I think it
would be good to have the lynx package be 2.8.3 with SSL, IPV6 and NLS,
and for lynx-current to track the development version more closely,
especially if the lynx developers merge some of this stuff into their main
line.

There is already an IPV6 patch in the lynx-2.8.3 distribution directory,
but the last time I checked, it didn't apply cleanly. It would be very
nice if someone would reconcile the distribution patch with the lynx
package patches and re-submit it to the development team.
 
> My main question on this topic is how to include NLS message catalogs.
> The Lynx distribution does not include the full catalogs, as they are
> collected and distributed by a different group, the Translation Project.
> Would a patch the the main lynx package by the right way to go, or
> should there be a different "lynx-intl" package with patches to retrieve
> the catalogs? My opinion is there should be a single package for the
> latest release, and one for the development version.

I suggest you compose the changes to lynx-current, for now. In general,
add the url's to DISTFILES, and use a post-extract target to copy them
into the right place.

> Just for reference, here are URLs for the distributed catalogs for the
> lynx-2.8.3 release:
> 
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/teams/PO/cs/lynx-2.8.3.rel1.cs.po
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/teams/PO/de/lynx-2.8.3.rel1.de.po
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/teams/PO/ja/lynx-2.8.3.rel1.ja.po
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/teams/PO/nl/lynx-2.8.3.rel1.nl.po
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/teams/PO/pt_BR/lynx-2.8.3.rel1.pt_BR.po
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/teams/PO/ru/lynx-2.8.3.rel1.ru.po
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/teams/PO/sl/lynx-2.8.3.rel1.sl.po
> 
> These files would be copied to the po/ directory as ja.po, for example,
> before lynx is compiled and installed.
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Marvin the Paranoid Android.
> 



Frederick