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You're absolutely right @decant. I was just trying a fresh build of vimini on a mac, to test the behavior explained by hedy, and I noticed that the data direcroty (where the sqlite db is stored) is not created automatically when it prefectly could. The config directory is (if you run the config-write command), so there's no reason to do the same with this one. I'll get to work, thanks!
Apr 18 · 4 months ago
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 19 at 19:47:
I think I get it now, and I agree, it's all about better defaults to improve usability. I thought you were talking about pre-build config. Yes, to be honest I haven't put much effort into making the first experience pleasant enough. A more comprehensive "quickstart" tutorial should see the first thing a new user sees, and help should be more accessible through commands. I'll come up with something for 0.6. Thanks!
I did release 0.5.1 to address some of the bugs that were mentioned in this thread as well, so thanks everyone for your feedback!
Vimini 0.5.0 — I'm releasing a new version of my browser, with added support for Gopher and other niceties. I've also added build instructions and a short demo video to its README. Up next I'm planning to rewrite the network code so it handles incoming data in a more stream-like fashion, instead of downloading it all and then parse it, which would support long-lived TCP connections (like the one chat.mozz.us uses) or downloads. If you manage to run it on a non-linux system let me know! I haven'...