* Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010717 18:47]:
>
> Baruch Even wrote:
>
> > I believe there was a conclusion to avoid that warning of using LyX with
> > XForms 0.89, it is used by users and by the developers and no harm is
> > known to happen from using 0.89
> >
> > I myself use 0.89 on Debian sid and see no problems with that.
>
> Great. Since you are a lyx developper, I think we can safely
> that your advice and continue to build using 0.89.
I am one of the developers but this is my impression and the fact that I
do not know of any report of problem with 0.89, but I guess any other
developer will also say the same.
> > Anything that says otherwise in the docs or in code should probably be
> > changed.
>
> I tracked down the change (dated 2000/04/26) in the README file to
> http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/lyx-devel/README.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4
>
> The diff is:
>
> < 2. The Xforms library version 0.81, 0.86 or 0.88.
> > 2. The Xforms library version 0.88 (recommended) or 0.89.
>
> In that context (the change made and the date it was made on),
> the comment doesn't really seem that conclusive against 0.89.
> Version 0.89 was still changing a bit, so 0.88 was probably safer
> at that point? (I'm speculating)
I don't think I was on the dev team at the time to comment.
> I'd very appreciate it if you could edit the README and INSTALL
> files in CVS so this is made clearer. (It would be nicer still
> if a few words were found on the Lyx web site, but that may be
> beyond your control. Should I file a wislist bug at SF?)
File one anyway so it will be kept there in case it falls to the
wayside. John is our BTS supervisor, he is the one who keeps us in sync
with the BTS and reminds us to do our tasks.
> > A bug list is available on sourceforge in the project lyx-bugs,
> > basically we use sf as our bug archival system.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxbugs/
>
> Thanks! Good to know. There should be a link from www.lyx.org
> too. ;-)
John replied to that already, it's yet to be made official.
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Baruch Even
http://baruch.ev-en.org/
