Guillaume Munch wrote: > Le 21/02/2016 20:52, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 06:06:14PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>> I also don't see a reason why this cannot be done now since otherwise >>> users of than languages would have to wait 2 more years until LyX 2.3.
Every LyX release in the past few years was further delayed by last-minute requests like this one. If we stop these last-minute changes, and improve the test coverage we can speed up the release process a lot. Besides that, every LyX release misses some features that are important for some users. The only way to avoid this is to throw a massive amount of developer man power upon LyX, and we all know that this won't happen. >> I agree that this is unfortunate. But the same is true for any feature. >> The feature freeze was over two months ago. Now we are focusing only on >> bug fixes. I do not think it would be fair to make an exception for this >> patch. Exactly. Such exceptions punish those who play by the rules and reward those who ignore the rules. This does not mean that I don't like the support for the new languages. It is a very good thing to have, just not right now. > I would not be shocked if an exception was made. Uwe's point is that it > is low risk/high reward and that being delayed until 2.3 is quite > significant. I do not remember seeing another patch in this situation. Because they have not been proposed. I have several easy features or bug fixes I'd like to put in (e.g. http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7404), but I did not propose them after the freeze because I assumed that the freeze was a freeze. Instead, I used my time for reviewing needed changes, and for fixing show stopper bugs. > * Is the lack of these languages easy to work around if the patch is > postponed? Yes. Load babel manually in the preamble, and disable the automatic loading via preferences (language settings->language package=none) > * Is there any risk that the settings might be wrong (especially in ways > that cannot be fixed without another file format increase)? Yes. For every new language we need a native speaker to verify that the result is correct. For example, support for urdu was added at http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/7eca5d94/lyxgit, and later it turned out that it was completely unusable, so that it was removed again at http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/cf9c7ad108fbc/lyxgit. Georg
