On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:09:12PM -0200, John Coppens wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among > > > other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up > > > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of > > > Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) > > > then I may give it a try again. > > > > Funny, chosing a do-it-yourself distro and not being able to compile a > > single package does not go well together in my opinion. But then, I am > > known for having strange opinions... > > Slackware 12.0 is hardly a do-it-yourself distro. I've been installing > versions for almost 10 years, and compiling LyXs for just under that. > There are up-to-date packages for Qt, though I compiled the one needed > for LyX myself, without problems. > > Though I can understand the feelings about Qt 4.4, I accept the criteria > of the developpers too. I _would_ vote for a 'grace' period of, say 6 > months to 1 year, to allow distros to be compiled and distributed with > the necessary tools. Not everyone is able to compile a project like Qt > (just one reason is that not everyone is able to read the instructions in > English).
We are talking about Qt 4._1_ and that's quite a bit more than a year old. So this fits well into your concept of 'grace period'. Andre' [PS: That 4.4 is considered outdated in some places, too, is completely irrelevant here ;-}]
