On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:32:42AM -0700, Roland Krause wrote:
> I remember from a year ago, that your Qt port wasnt really using Qt's
> signal and slot but instead your own implementation, is that still
> true?

We are using boost's signals nowaday which happen to work for both
frontends.

> Unfortunately Lyx isnt really as hot as it used to be, many people I
> tried to advocate it to, are completely put off by its awkward XForms
> user interface even more simply dont have xforms any longer. Also there
> are now strong contenders, koffice, openoffice, texmacs etc. quite
> frankly lyx has become a "one in many".

Indeed. That's another reason why I am not too happy with two
three-month-freezes per year ;-}

> Lyx has still many things ahead of the competition and you guys have
> done an outstanding job cleaning up things. Maybe you can update on the
> website what exectly you need, I know a few KDE and Qt developers from
> some work on KDevelop and maybe there is something that can be done. I
> did miss the call for help on qt-interest, if it was there. 

I think there was no "official" call. I just had been decided that the Qt
port was necessary for a 1.3 release and as nothing else is being worked 
on there was some expectation that the Qt work gets done somehow. But it
does not seem to work out that way....

> Also how about allowing people access to a part of your CVS repository.

There is public read access already. In "warm" times it is not to hard
to get a nod or two on a patch send to the list.

> In KDE you do get an account because you want one, the benefit of the
> doubt is given to anybody. No one bothers really sending patches unless
> it is feature freeze. You may want to consider that instead of sending
> patches and fixing them endlessly.

That "endless fixing" does not happen too often I think. But yes, it
happens, and I had been bitten by it myself...

The problem is to make sure people adher to things like coding style,
"patterns" etc. Allowing everybody to commit stuff would mean a lot of
extra cleaning work because people just don't care. I don't think our
problems have to do with CVS access...

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)

Reply via email to