On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:40:55PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj�nnes wrote:
>
> > Hmm this was also one thing that bugged me... We, The LyX Team, have
> > so far had/done _no_ efforts to provide the Windows port. All testing
> > and support has been done outside of core team.
> > The Windows port is just a bonus to portably written code...
>
> IMHO, it all seems rather confusing to outsiders.
>
> To some, failure to choose a modern toolkits might suggest the avoidance
> of religious warfare, rather than sagacious development strategy.
>
> To others, GUI "independence" might suggest that the developers are
> suffering through all sorts of additional effort, seeping into every
> nook and crany of the code.
Perhaps GUIM -- GUI Modularization would seem more appropriate to you?
Trouble is that we then need to talk about system modularization when we
start supported multiple non-Unix platforms such as Windows, BeOS,
WhateverOS.
The independence is both internal and external -- core independent from
frontend and application independent from toolkit.
> Whether or not any member of The LyX Team is specifically supporting a
> port to Windows, GUII might, to some, seem related to Windows support.
> The benefits for the Unixes, where modern X-server oriented toolkits are
> pretty well cross-platform, are not immediately obvious.
>
> Many recent postings to this list suggest that the the above impressions
> would be inaccurate, or that there is an important story to be told.
>
> Wading through the archives in search of rationale for these and other
> decisions is probably not a realistic option for most people who might
> want to take a look at this effort and its future.
>
> Is there any possibility, perhaps on one of the LyX web pages, for a
> statement of the development strategy and rationale?
You started this thread to reach this point didn't you? :-)
You just wanted to encourage me to finish researching and writing the
"History of GUII" series that Asger has already pointed out. I'll try
extra hard to work on that soon. Probably during the developers meeting
weekend.
Allan. (ARRae)
