Brian Bailey wrote on 11 Feb:
... I'm not into guessology. # is not a British convention
anyway so far as I am aware, for some 80ish years, it's a hindrance! Why
put it there when it serves no useful purpose, I ask?
You'd think the software behind the bug-tracker could simply ignore
the # if
On 13 Feb 2014 Jim Nagel wrote:
You'd think the software behind the bug-tracker could simply ignore
the # if people type it in this box. It would seem natural enough
for a user to type it, since # is shown loudclear in the Netsurf
info box as part of the version number.
Well there is a #
Rob Kendrick wrote on 13 Feb:
...back then the same issue happened (occurs in revision field not
accepting an r) and yet nobody complained!
My point was just a general one that software needs to anticipate that
different users might input stuff in ways that are obvious with
hindsight.
--
I have just downloaded the current development version,
NetSurf-gcc-json-1718/zip and am in the throes of installing it on
several machines here.
Datestamps on the !Boot and !System folders and all their contents
were lost again sometime before 2014-02-04 (possibly before
2013-04-25, which is
In article 9b5f51d953@abbeypress.net,
Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote:
[Snip]
Suggestion to the Netsurf team:
Please, could you include an extra Readme-date file in the download
zipfile that would simply state in plain text the date of the last
actual change and words to
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:56:17PM +, Brian Jordan wrote:
I work on the assumption that if a merge-boot or merge-system is required
that NetSurf will let me know with an appropriate message. Otherwise I
just let NetSurf get on with it. Am I under vigilant or are you over
vigilant? It
Brian Jordan wrote on 13 Feb:
In article 9b5f51d953@abbeypress.net,
Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote:
Suggestion to the Netsurf team:
Please, could you include an extra Readme-date file in the download
zipfile that would simply state in plain text the date of the last
In message bb6367d953@abbeypress.net
Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote:
Brian Jordan wrote on 13 Feb:
In article 9b5f51d953@abbeypress.net,
Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote:
Suggestion to the Netsurf team:
Please, could you include an extra
