Re: dates of !Boot and !System within download

In message <bb6367d953.jim@abbeypress.net>
Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

> Brian Jordan wrote on 13 Feb:
>
>> In article <9b5f51d953.jim@abbeypress.net>,
>> Jim Nagel <netsurf@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
>>> actual change and words to the effect that "If you have updated !Boot
>>> and !System since this date, there is no need to do it this time."
>
>>> It would save the chore of going to every machine and repepetititively
>>> performing the merge-boot and merge-system rigamarole when it isn't
>>> necessary. (The rest of the job of updating the !Netsurf application
>>> on all stations can be done over the network.) Thanks.
>
>
>> 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 seems to me that the NetSurf team have far bigger fish than
>> this to fry.
>
> Maybe I am being overpunctilious, but I'm just following the
> instructions in the existing&unchanging Readme that comes as part of
> the download.
>
>>From what you say, I can see that Netsurf might give a warning about a
> module being out of date. But the Unicode stuff is not modules:
> would Netsurf warn if any Unicode files are missing or outdated?
>
>
I am in the 'ALWAYS update !Boot and !System' camp. I often notice,
when doing so, that the hourglass/percentage twitches briefly into
life, which suggests that something is being overwritten, i.e.,
altered, presumably necessarily.

--
george greenfield