> IMO you're not supposed to do anything, but help sure is
> welcome. The SDCC manual is written using LYX. If you
> use 1.4 be sure to save as backward compatible with 1.3.
> The file to change is sdccman.lyx in the doc directory
> of the source tree. After updating you can create a
> patch file (with context) and upload it in the patch
> tracker.

Dear Maarten, and others,

My biggest problem is, that this is a hobby and I do it at home. And I live
in a small village, with no high-speed internet, just a POTS dialup (thanks
for that) or a similarly slow GSM/.GPRS connection.

And this STUPID STUPID STUPID world, including the OS community, simply
assumes that . I don't believe this at all - why, this plainly excludes all
the 3rd world from, and that's the vast majority of potential developers!

I tried, honestly. Downloaded the "net installation" of lyx, 73MB, in true
belief, this is all I need. Even made a trial installation; unfortunately on
a machine which is online (so I didn't notice the background downloads).

Now I am trying it and it complains of lack of MiKTEX packages. I am
browsing now for more than a hour and cannot get a simple download site for
those packages (I assume they are huge but am willing to go to a highspeed
access place and get it from there and bring it home on a CD or DVD).

This is a deadlock and I cannot afford to spend more time and resources on
this case. I assumed I will spend some time getting into quirks of LYX, and
here I am again, browsing for those gold nuggets of real information
scattered accross the net...

And the same I assume will be the case when I try to set up for SDCC
compilation. I just hope, the SDCC community will never go this stupid way.

I am very disappointed. Sorry.

JW

PS. In these situations, one starts to appreciate the wiki approach truly...

PS2 originally I wanted to ask, why ver 1.3, the wiki says the LYX at
compile farm is 1.44...?

PS3. and of course I don't have the slightest idea what does it take to
"create a patch", notabene "with context"....


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