Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > > There seems to be a lot of unhappiness about the autosave problem on > > Snow Leopard. Is it worth some kind of emergency release of current > > branch for that platform, or of 1.6.4 with the patch that allows > > disabling of autosave?
Since current branch has already quite a number of changes, this would then really be LyX 1.6.5, not LyX 1.6.4.2. > > And Bennett, I know nothing about Mac packaging. So: Is it possible to > > detect if you are on Snow Leopard and if so install the package with > > autosave turned off by default? > > I would rather autosave without forking. There is a "#if HAVE_FORK" in > the code. If this is not defined, LyX does not fork before autosaving. > The drawback is a slight delay when typing, but this is the same > behaviour as on Windows and I have not heard anyone complaining. So we could just rebuild 1.6.4.1 with this, and call it 1.6.4.2, right? Jürgen
