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Package request: links2 #816

Closed alive4ever closed 7 years ago

alive4ever commented 7 years ago

I would love to see links2 packaged for termux.

It's an alternative to elinks, which hasn't had any stable release since 2012.

Thanks.

fornwall commented 7 years ago

From https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/pull/597:

Hm, links2 seems a bit dead/stagnant as a project, and contains no issue tracker or open forum to open issues against. I'm a bit hesitant to add these kind of projects - does it bring any advantages over w3m or lynx?

Let me know if you need links2 over w3m or lynx!

alive4ever commented 7 years ago

I still prefer links2 over elinks, since the links2 default configuration is safer than elinks default. links2 will warn on invalid certificates, whereas elinks will gladly accept invalid certificates.

links2 also has better support for latest tls libraries.

w3m is out of option, since mouse tracking only works when TERM=xterm. lynx is also out of option, since mouse tracking has to be expicitly enabled from command line -use_mouse. lynx also doesn't support frames, which links2 and elinks support.

It would be better to offer alternatives for browsers, since links2 is very lightweight and doesn't require much resources to build and maintain. Compare it to emacs as reference.

alive4ever commented 7 years ago

I pointed wrong Debian package as reference. The package should be links, which is links2 without graphics support.