This decision really doesn't have to be taken now. If/when TexLive decides to kick out natbib, there likely will be a good reason for it. That reason may or may not be good enough for LyX to follow suit. No-one stops anyone from using an older LyX-version of course.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Johannes Wilm wrote: > > I understand your concerns. Maybe one way of doing it is to simply > support > > as much as one can of what is in TexLive. Once Jurabib and natbib are > > removed from texlive then one can start to think about retire the > function > > from Lyx as well. > > This only shifts the problem. TeXLive is just _one_ TeX distribution. We > really want LyX do process 15 year old documents without further ado. > > Jürgen > -- Johannes Wilm http://www.johanneswilm.org tel: +1 (520) 399 8880
