Re: lynx-dev lynx.cfg bloat (was various fixes)

[Mike Castle]

On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 09:20:59PM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> A simple patch to send.  (I agree FORCE_SSL_COOKIES_SECURE should be
> moved, I don't see any reason for the current placement.)
> But this can happen whether comments are in a different place or not,
> whether the .cfg file is split or not, right?

I seem to remember this conversation coming up before several years ago
(probably around 1996 or earlier).

I thought the answer at the time was "all new lynx.cfg items should be
placed at the bottom of the file so that admins, when they upgrade, can
easily see what new items may need to be tweaked".

I want to say it was Fote who made that comment, but I can't be sure.

That does, of course, have the effect of making it more difficult for a new
user to install and configure lynx, but at least at that time, few new
people were installing lynx; the home unix craze wasn't quite up to the
level it is now.  And even people installing lynx for the first time were
at least experienced admins who didn't have much problem (either
understanding the file, or with it's mixed up commands).

I haven't been paying too much attention to how items are added now, but it
seems to me that when  FORCE_SSL_COOKIES_SECURE was added, it was not added
to the end of the file.  So it appears that that rule of thumb is no longer
being followed.

mrc
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