On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:23:01PM +0200, Andre Poenitz spake thusly: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:53:54AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
... > > However, if it appears that Ruurd's code can help building a Mingw/X11 > > version of LyX (which would be lighter than a cygwin version and > > better than the xforms version we had), then we could distribute that. > > We could do than on top of providing the native sources. X11 under Windows > is a crutch and it just does not fit there. It's ok if it's your only > option but not some 'primary solution'. At least it was like that last time > I needed it - which has been a while ago now.. > > Moreover, the complete setup including some introduction to X11 for > newbies is not less work than providing a 'monkey see-monkey do'-style > description of a downloading lyx source + compiler + compliing the thing. > > Andre' Probably true. But on the other hand, it could be argued that making people install and see CygWin for themselves has intrinsic value... if you cannot make them switch to *nix, inflict *nix upon them. <ducking> - Martin
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