Re: Iconv report

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:23:42PM +0000, mail@JohnWoodhouse.plus.com wrote:
>
> Can someone explain why (at least in !Netsurf 3.0) the !Run file contains :
>
> RMEnsure Iconv 0.12 NetSurfRMLoad System:Modules.Iconv
> RMEnsure Iconv 0.12 Error NetSurf requires Iconv 0.12 or later. This can be
> downloaded from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/iconv/
>
> - and this is the version I have running according to !Verma,

NetSurf requires Iconv 0.12, which the Run file is ensuring.

> and yet, running !Reporter, I see that when running !Netsurf for the first
> time, there is a delay while this is repeated no fewer than 189 times: !
>
> [Appl/NetSurf] RMEnsure Iconv 0.04 RMload System:Modules.Iconv
> [Appl/NetSurf] RMEnsure Iconv 0.04 Error 16_10F iconv support requires the
> Iconv module 0.04 or newer
>
> on subsequent page loads it is repeated a mere 66 times.
>
> Apart from the question of why this is repeated so many times, so slowing
> up page loads, where is this coming from when Iconv 0.04 is called for in
> the !Run file, and in any case Iconv 0.12 is running?

This is generated by UnixLib. See
http://vlists.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-users-netsurf-browser.org/2012-September/010906.html
for details.


John-Mark.