On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> Because sometimes I'd like to read code. And it certainly does not help
> much if I have to clean my display everytime I stumble across these
> #ifdefs.

I despise ifdefs, but it seems a reasonable compromise here.

> No. I want the code in a usable form. If that means I can't use the newest
> version of some external lib in alpha stage, that's fate. Next try next
> year. Even if said lib is the hippest of modern C++.

Oh come on. <sstream> is hardly hip is it.

> I know that you have some kind of preprocessor build into your eyes that
> handles #ifdefs and creates some endomorphin if they encounter the sequence
> "boost::", but I would not mind if you kept in mind the existance of poorly
> equipped lesser beings...
> 

There are only a few sites that use it and they are rarely write in the
middle of an important algorithm.

No big deal.

> Moreover, you decreed a feature freeze, basically stalling LyX development
> for three months or so. Ok, I can live with that. But then I do not expect
> _you_ to introduce controversial stuff like that. [Yes, I know, you send
> the patch to the list, and I could hve tested it myself]

This is a different argument I have more sympathy for. But he is the
leader, and we must allow him to break his own rules once or twice ;)

regards
john

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