Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:52:49PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: I don't think so, as it is a very particular switch. Here is the pertinent comment in src/lyxfunc.C: void actOnUpdatedPrefs(LyXRC const lyxrc_orig, LyXRC const lyxrc_new) { // Why the switch you might ask. It is a

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:52:49PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > I don't think so, as it is a very particular switch. Here is the > pertinent comment in src/lyxfunc.C: > > void actOnUpdatedPrefs(LyXRC const & lyxrc_orig, LyXRC const & lyxrc_new) > { > // Why the switch you might ask.

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bo == Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo As I have said, this patch is strictly cygwin only, and JMarc is Bo obviously not an active cygwin user, I (we) have to trust Enrico Bo on his patches to move cygwin/lyx forward. I will review the patch tomorrow. And, yes, I prefer to have the time

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bo> As I have said, this patch is strictly cygwin only, and JMarc is Bo> obviously not an active cygwin user, I (we) have to trust Enrico Bo> on his patches to move cygwin/lyx forward. >> I will review the patch tomorrow. And, yes, I prefer to

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk and branch? It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. Since this patch is small enough, and it is strictly in your domain (cygwin), I have applied to

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:09:51AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk and branch? It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. Since this patch is small

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:46:14PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:43:14PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: case RC_TEX_ALLOWS_SPACES: if (lexrc.next()) { tex_allows_spaces = lexrc.getBool(); @@ -1342,6

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Bo Peng
Since this patch is small enough, and it is strictly in your domain (cygwin), I have applied to both 1.4 and 1.5. Bo, please DO NOT apply ANYTHING to the 1.4 branch without Jean-Marc's agreement. I think I have to be blamed for this, not Bo. Do not feel bad, Enrico. At least I do not.

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:26:55PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:46:14PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:43:14PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: case RC_TEX_ALLOWS_SPACES: if (lexrc.next()) {

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Bo == Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo As I have said, this patch is strictly cygwin only, and JMarc is Bo obviously not an active cygwin user, I (we) have to trust Enrico Bo on his patches to move cygwin/lyx forward. I will review the patch tomorrow. And, yes, I prefer to have the time to

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Bo Peng
Bo As I have said, this patch is strictly cygwin only, and JMarc is Bo obviously not an active cygwin user, I (we) have to trust Enrico Bo on his patches to move cygwin/lyx forward. I will review the patch tomorrow. And, yes, I prefer to have the time to have a look at everything that goes in

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Angus Leeming
Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk and branch? >>> It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. > Since this patch is small enough, and it is strictly in your domain > (cygwin), I have

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:09:51AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk > and branch? > > >>> It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. > > > Since

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:46:14PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:43:14PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: > case RC_TEX_ALLOWS_SPACES: > if (lexrc.next()) { > tex_allows_spaces = lexrc.getBool(); > @@ -1342,6

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Bo Peng
> > Since this patch is small enough, and it is strictly in your domain > > (cygwin), I have applied to both 1.4 and 1.5. > > Bo, please DO NOT apply ANYTHING to the 1.4 branch without Jean-Marc's agreement. I think I have to be blamed for this, not Bo. Do not feel bad, Enrico. At least I do

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:26:55PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:46:14PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:43:14PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: > > case RC_TEX_ALLOWS_SPACES: > > if (lexrc.next()) { > >

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bo> As I have said, this patch is strictly cygwin only, and JMarc is Bo> obviously not an active cygwin user, I (we) have to trust Enrico Bo> on his patches to move cygwin/lyx forward. I will review the patch tomorrow. And, yes, I prefer to have

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-05-01 Thread Bo Peng
Bo> As I have said, this patch is strictly cygwin only, and JMarc is Bo> obviously not an active cygwin user, I (we) have to trust Enrico Bo> on his patches to move cygwin/lyx forward. I will review the patch tomorrow. And, yes, I prefer to have the time to have a look at everything that goes in

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed runtimes dll: http://younes.a.free.fr/Lyx-15-experimental/lyx-qt4-exe-and-dlls.zip Abdel, I tried your LyX/Qt4 and got a bug

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk and branch? It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. That is a good detective work! I will apply if JMarc does not object. I have to trust Enrico on this though, since I can not test the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:24:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed runtimes dll:

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:24:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Enrico Forestieri a écrit : If you just copied the exe inside a 1.4.1 directory, I think there is a mismatch between configure.sh and configure.py. Please try the full package. Nope, it was the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
On 4/29/06, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk and branch? It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. Since this patch is small enough, and it is strictly in your domain (cygwin), I have

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:32:06PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: And does your patch to configure.py solve the crash of the open file button? No, sorry. It is an unrelated problem, only showing up because I used a cmd.exe to launch your LyX/Qt4. I did so because from a rxvt terminal I got

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:50:29AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: On 4/29/06, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk and branch? It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. Since this patch is

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed runtimes dll: http://younes.a.free.fr/Lyx-15-experimental/lyx-qt4-exe-and-dlls.zip Abdel, I tried your LyX/Qt4 and got a bug

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
> Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk > and branch? It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. That is a good detective work! I will apply if JMarc does not object. I have to trust Enrico on this though, since I can not test

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:24:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > > >> I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed > >> runtimes dll: > >>

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:24:21PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Enrico Forestieri a écrit : If you just copied the exe inside a 1.4.1 directory, I think there is a mismatch between configure.sh and configure.py. Please try the full package. Nope, it was the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Bo Peng
On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk > > and branch? > > It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. Since this patch is small enough, and it is strictly in your domain (cygwin),

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:32:06PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > And does your patch to configure.py solve the crash of the "open file" > button? No, sorry. It is an unrelated problem, only showing up because I used a cmd.exe to launch your LyX/Qt4. I did so because from a rxvt terminal I

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-29 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:50:29AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > On 4/29/06, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please, can you see if the attached patch can be applied to both trunk > > > > and branch? > > > > > > It seems to touch Bo's and Jean-Marc's work so I'll let them comment that. > >

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Luis Rivera a écrit : Luis Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Consequently, and taking the opportunity open by the switch to the 1.4.x series, I recommend to sign the death certificate for LyX's support on Win95/98. Following another thread made me realize that I failed to mention that

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on Win98, maybe also on Win98. There some info to try it on the Wiki. I think that Abdel meant to say, We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on WinME, ... The improvement comes, of course, from the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on Win98, maybe also on Win98. There some info to try it on the Wiki. I think that Abdel meant to say, We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on WinME, ... Yep, sorry. The

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus The improvement comes, of course, from the switch to Qt4. Angus Note, however, that your hard work to get LyX working on Angus Win98 would need a little tweaking because the changes we made Angus to Boost.Filesystem haven't been propogated formward into Angus the version of Boost.Filesystem

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Angus The improvement comes, of course, from the switch to Qt4. Angus Note, however, that your hard work to get LyX working on Angus Win98 would need a little tweaking because the changes we made Angus to Boost.Filesystem haven't been propogated formward into Angus the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Angus Leeming a écrit : | Angus The improvement comes, of course, from the switch to Qt4. | Angus Note, however, that your hard work to get LyX working on | Angus Win98 would need a little tweaking because the changes we made | Angus to

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't track the change down. Well, I don't have enough disk space to get the 1.4 tree. Bo, Enrico, could

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't track the change down. Well, I don't have enough disk space to get the 1.4 tree.

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Angus Leeming a écrit : | Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) | #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't track the | change down. | |

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Lars Gullik Bjønnes a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Angus Leeming a écrit : | Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) | #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are the relevant logs and the diff against current svn, please tell me what I should do You should drop the stuff that's needed for Win95. LyX on Win95 is broken for other reasons. That may well mean that all you need is the ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are the relevant logs and the diff against current svn, please tell me what I should do You should drop the stuff that's needed for Win95. LyX on Win95 is broken for other reasons. That may well mean that all you need is

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given that Win95 is dead as a dodo, it may well be that you don't need the NewAPIs.h. The only way to check, however, is to compile (on a WinXP machine, presumably) and then see if it'll run on Win98. That's what the stub magic in NewAPIs.h does:

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Louis, could you please try the experimental lyx for windows described in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX150Experimental ? Sure enough! Give me half an hour. So, if I understand you correctly, all the special code in this boost file is

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Louis, could you please try the experimental lyx for windows described in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX150Experimental ? I downloaded the exe only zip file. Apparently, LyX 15x needs the library zlib1.dll besides the files distributed with

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Luis Rivera a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Louis, could you please try the experimental lyx for windows described in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX150Experimental ? I downloaded the exe only zip file. Apparently, LyX 15x needs the library zlib1.dll besides the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:43:14PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: AFAIK, LyX still works on Win95/Cygwin (on an Intel486!). Slow as anything can be, but works. On Win98 it greatly improves, thanks to the hardware. The real mess seems to be the path handling. On Cygwin everything is normal

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luis Rivera a écrit : Where did you get this file? From the gnuwin32 project. I've put it in my web site (younes.a.free,fr) I could not post it to the list even after having changed the extension so it can pass the filters. I see. I

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Luis Rivera a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luis Rivera a écrit : Where did you get this file? From the gnuwin32 project. I've put it in my web site (younes.a.free,fr) I could not post it to the list even after having changed the extension so it can pass the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cygwin runs on top of Windows. It works because it is developed by competent people **who** know how to deal with various Windows flavors. Agree... The path handling is not a mess in my copy of LyX, perhaps it is in the official sources.

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:30:18PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it looks native because the interface to the user doesn't go through the command prompt; however, it is may not a native application. To be a native application it had to go

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Enrico Forestieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:30:18PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: Enrico Forestieri forenr at ... writes: I think it looks native because the interface to the user doesn't go through the command prompt; however, it is may not a native

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:15:53PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: Having that definition in mind, then none of your exes is a true native windows app. Sorry! ;-) I have never claimed they are :-) However, I tested both on Win98, and both work pretty much as expected: 1/ LyX native (Qt library

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed runtimes dll: http://younes.a.free.fr/Lyx-15-experimental/lyx-qt4-exe-and-dlls.zip Abdel, I tried your LyX/Qt4 and got a bug report for you. After launching

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Luis Rivera a écrit : Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Consequently, and taking the opportunity open by the switch to the 1.4.x series, I recommend to sign the death certificate for LyX's support on Win95/98. Following another thread made me realize that I failed to mention that

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on Win98, maybe also on > Win98. There some info to try it on the Wiki. I think that Abdel meant to say, "We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on WinME, ..." The improvement comes, of course, from

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on Win98, maybe also on Win98. There some info to try it on the Wiki. I think that Abdel meant to say, "We had information that lyx-15svn/qt4 works on WinME, ..." Yep, sorry.

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Angus> The improvement comes, of course, from the switch to Qt4. Angus> Note, however, that your hard work to get LyX working on Angus> Win98 would need a little tweaking because the changes we made Angus> to Boost.Filesystem haven't been propogated formward into Angus> the version of

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Angus> The improvement comes, of course, from the switch to Qt4. Angus> Note, however, that your hard work to get LyX working on Angus> Win98 would need a little tweaking because the changes we made Angus> to Boost.Filesystem haven't been propogated formward into Angus>

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Angus Leeming a écrit : | > Angus> The improvement comes, of course, from the switch to Qt4. | > Angus> Note, however, that your hard work to get LyX working on | > Angus> Win98 would need a little tweaking because the changes we made | > Angus> to

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) >> #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't track >> the >> change down. > Well, I don't have enough disk space to get the 1.4 tree. Bo, Enrico,

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't track the change down. Well, I don't have enough disk space to get the 1.4 tree.

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Angus Leeming a écrit : | > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >>> Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) | >>> #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details if you can't track the | >>>

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Lars Gullik Bjønnes a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Angus Leeming a écrit : | > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >>> Yes. One of the files in boost/libs/filesystem/src (Sorry, no viewsvn...) | >>> #includes and uses NewAPIs.h. I can dig out the details

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here are the relevant logs and the diff against current svn, please tell > me what I should do You should drop the stuff that's needed for Win95. LyX on Win95 is broken for other reasons. That may well mean that all you need is the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Here are the relevant logs and the diff against current svn, please tell me what I should do You should drop the stuff that's needed for Win95. LyX on Win95 is broken for other reasons. That may well mean that all you need

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Given that Win95 is dead as a dodo, it may well be that you don't need the >> NewAPIs.h. The only way to check, however, is to compile (on a WinXP machine, >> presumably) and then see if it'll run on Win98. That's what the stub magic in >> NewAPIs.h

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Louis, could you please try the experimental lyx for windows described > in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX150Experimental ? > Sure enough! Give me half an hour. > > So, if I understand you correctly, all the special code in this boost

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Louis, could you please try the experimental lyx for windows described > in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX150Experimental ? > I downloaded the exe only zip file. Apparently, LyX 15x needs the library zlib1.dll besides the files

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Luis Rivera a écrit : > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> Louis, could you please try the experimental lyx for windows described in http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX150Experimental ? >> > > I downloaded the exe only zip file. Apparently, LyX 15x needs the library zlib1.dll

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:43:14PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: > AFAIK, LyX still works on Win95/Cygwin (on an Intel486!). Slow as anything > can > be, but works. On Win98 it greatly improves, thanks to the hardware. The > real > mess seems to be the path handling. On Cygwin everything is

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Luis Rivera a écrit : > > > Where did you get this file? > > From the gnuwin32 project. I've put it in my web site > (younes.a.free,fr) I could not post it to the list even after having > changed the extension so it can pass the filters. >

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Luis Rivera a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis Rivera a écrit : > Where did you get this file? From the gnuwin32 project. I've put it in my web site (younes.a.free,fr) I could not post it to the list even after having changed the extension so it can pass the

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Cygwin runs on top of Windows. It works because it is developed by > competent people **who** know how to deal with various Windows flavors. > Agree... > The path handling is not a mess in my copy of LyX, perhaps it is > in the official

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:30:18PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it "looks" native because the interface to the user doesn't go > through > the command prompt; however, it is may not a native application. To be > a "native" application it

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Luis Rivera
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 08:30:18PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: > > Enrico Forestieri ...> writes: > > > I think it "looks" native because the interface to the user doesn't go through > > the command prompt; however, it is may not a native

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:15:53PM +, Luis Rivera wrote: > Having that definition in mind, then none of your exes is a "true native" > windows app. Sorry! ;-) I have never claimed they are :-) > However, I tested both on Win98, and both work pretty much as expected: > > 1/ LyX "native"

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-28 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I have put another package which contains the exe and the needed > runtimes dll: > http://younes.a.free.fr/Lyx-15-experimental/lyx-qt4-exe-and-dlls.zip Abdel, I tried your LyX/Qt4 and got a bug report for you. After

LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-27 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello, I've been busy, and I'd just like to add two announcements; what follows should mean what I say. 1/ WinLyX 1.4.1 doesn't seem to work on Win98 (didn't even try on Win95). Aborts with a Page Fault error; doesn't go to the ugly blue screen, but it's certain that something's wrong very deep

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-27 Thread Luis Rivera
Luis Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Consequently, and taking the opportunity open by the switch to the 1.4.x series, I recommend to sign the death certificate for LyX's support on Win95/98. Following another thread made me realize that I failed to mention that Cygwin (Qt|xforms)

LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-27 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello, I've been busy, and I'd just like to add two announcements; what follows should mean what I say. 1/ WinLyX 1.4.1 doesn't seem to work on Win98 (didn't even try on Win95). Aborts with a "Page Fault" error; doesn't go to the ugly blue screen, but it's certain that something's wrong very

Re: LyX 1.4.1 doesn't work on Win98---and doesn't matter, anyway

2006-04-27 Thread Luis Rivera
Luis Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Consequently, and taking the opportunity open by the switch to the > 1.4.x series, > I recommend to sign the death certificate for LyX's support on Win95/98. > Following another thread made me realize that I failed to mention that Cygwin