Steve Litt wrote:
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural
areas are years from getting broadband. The "just upgrade your qt"
suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that could go
down any time.
Most of the free software I've written has been in Perl or Ruby or Vim,
but I've always tried very hard to have it installable on almost
anything.
Man, we're talking about a full blown C++ word processor here... I
personally find your attitude a bit insulting towards the people who
develop LyX.
If I read your words correctly, you're insulted because as a C++ developer on
a full blown word processor/converter project, users who need a day to
download the latest Qt ask you to be compatible with older Qt's so that they
don't need to spend a day downloading.
Something else: Many of the new feature you will maybe someday see in
1.5 are a direct result of our choice of Qt4.1 for development. If you
want to resurrect the xforms or the qt3 frontends from death, feel free
to do it, this is open source, it's all in SVN. If you are not happy
with the choice of Qt4.1 just stay with LyX-1.4.2 (strong advice:
upgrade to 1.4.5.1 at least). This is a perfectly fine choice too, you
don't have to use the latest version of LyX.
I am out of this thread now.
Abdel.
