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 -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
