Re: LYNX-DEV Userdefs.h and Lynx.cfg consolidation

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> Making a "stripped-down" version of lynx is an interesting solution, but
> I'm not sure that you've got a problem to go with it.  OTOH, if you really

Exactly.  It would require, as I've stated numerous times, the talents of
a very competent c programmer to ifdef out the various objects.  I'm not
sure we want (much less do we even have the right to ask) Lynx developers
to work on a thankless job.  But if someone wants to ...

To refresh memories (sorry my link is just to slow to search the official
archives):

        Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 18:29:57 +0900 (JST)
        From: Nelson Henry Eric <address@hidden>
        Subject: minimal lynx
        
        There was discussion a while back about building a minimal lynx,
        mostly with the intent of using it for anonymous accounts on
        limited-resource machines.
        
        Well, not linking in LYUpload.o, LYLocal.o, LYCgi.o, LYDownload.o,
        LYNews.o, LYMail.o, LYJump.o and LYTraversal.o reduces the lynx
        image about 9% (from 663552 to 606208 compiling on sun4 with gcc).
        
        The bottom line is, though, that it would hardly be worth it because
        of the difficulty of _selectively_ removing portions of LYDownload.o
        and LYTraversal.o, which are probably the biggest gainers.  These
        two have to be very carefully ifdefed out to prevent introducing bugs.

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