Re: [Lynx-dev] How stable is 2.9.0?

[Travis Siegel]

For what it's worth, I've been using 2.9.0 since version dev 5, and I've 
not encountered any major bugs with it.  I'm fairly confident it will be 
plenty stable enough for your use.

It's possible you'll find something else thatwon't do the trick for you, 
but it's plenty stable enough for everyday use.


On 11/1/2022 11:00 AM, Mouse wrote:
> The lynx I've been using - 2.8, from 1999 - started exhibiting a
> disturbing failure mode, today: I got "lynx in free(): warning: chunk
> is already free.", indicating a memory-management bug, and, in at least
> one session, got a coredump (ditto, but even more so).
>
> I could just treat this as a debugging exercise.  But I wanted to at
> least look at version-jumping instead.  It appears to me that the
> latest release is 2.8.9, with 2.9.0 being still in development
> versions.  But a lot of development versions, especially for
> open-source software, are plenty usable enough.  And I notice that
> 2.9.0dev looks relatively stable; the last-change time I see is
> 2021-08-07.  So, my question is, is 2.9.0 in good enough shape that I
> should (FWVO "should") use it, or would 2.8.9 be better?  (Of course,
> it's possible that either one has some property that will render it
> unsuitable for my purposes, but I figured I should at least look into
> it.)
>
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