Bo Peng wrote:
Because it is not the job of LyX to maintain other project source code,
so they say.
Exactly, also because it is difficult to keep them up to date. What if
aspell has a new release?
Aspell releases are not frequent at all. Same for Aiksaurus (2003), etc.
If that is the case and the new release is good for LyX we remove it
from SVN. I don't see a problem with that. It's not like we are
committed to maintain the source. Anyway, no need to discuss that
because it won't be accepted.
The binaries (including headers and libs like your Aspell package)
should be compatible for all version of windows so need to recompile
them. Then it will be even easier to compile and package lyx.
I doubt that the binaries are allowed, since it does not make sense,
and expensive to version-control them. I think it is reasonable to
propose to Lars that
1. upload lyx win installer to svn/winInstaller (parallel to www-devel)
2. upload patches to various external programs (with readme)
3. upload modified binaries to devel.lyx.org/contrib or /winInstaller.
OK
Abdel.
