Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-09 Thread younes . a
Quoting Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Abdelrazak == Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Abdelrazak I guess that would be a no from JMarc and Lars so let's Abdelrazak just forget about this thread. Sorry for the noise. Hey! You did not give me a chance to say no by myself!

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-09 Thread younes . a
Quoting Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Abdelrazak> I guess that would be a "no" from JMarc and Lars so let's > Abdelrazak> just forget about this thread. Sorry for the noise. > > Hey! You did not give me a chance

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) | | Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt | to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. | People are just afraid of potential bad thing that

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Georg Baum a écrit : | Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 11:39 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: | First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) | | Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here | wrt to autotools. I believe it is

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Lars Gullik Bjønnes a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) | | Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt | to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. | People are just

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Joost Verburg
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: It is already generating it my friend. I was trying to improve the present build system which is close to sxxxt as far as I am concerned with windows. You say you are caring about portability across old Unix and other exotic system but I reckon there are *much* more

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Joost Verburg wrote: A good scons system will make it possible to compile using MinGW, Microsoft C++, Borland or whatever using the same scripts. Joost I'm not a developper and incapable of having a real technical opinion. But why not wait until KDE finishes its transition to CMake. I guess

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:30:06AM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: It is already generating it my friend. I was trying to improve the present build system which is close to sxxxt as far as I am concerned with windows. You say you are caring about portability across

[O-T] Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 6 May 2006, Georg Baum wrote: I am historic? Not at all (or you will be historic in next year, too). While doing my PhD, I think it was my professor who said that you become an export on a (minor) topic in six months. So becoming historic in a year sounds about right to me :-) /C --

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) | | Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt | to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. | People are just afraid of potential bad thing

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Georg Baum a écrit : | > Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 11:39 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: | >> First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) | >> | >> Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here | >> wrt to autotools. I

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Lars Gullik Bjønnes a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) | | Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt | to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. | People are just

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Joost Verburg
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: It is already generating it my friend. I was trying to improve the present build system which is close to sxxxt as far as I am concerned with windows. You say you are caring about portability across old Unix and other exotic system but I reckon there are *much* more

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Charles de Miramon
Joost Verburg wrote: > A good scons system will make it possible to compile using MinGW, > Microsoft C++, Borland or whatever using the same scripts. > > Joost I'm not a developper and incapable of having a real technical opinion. But why not wait until KDE finishes its transition to CMake. I

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:30:06AM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > It is already generating it my friend. I was trying to improve the > > present build system which is close to sxxxt as far as I am concerned > > with windows. You say you are caring about portability

[O-T] Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-08 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 6 May 2006, Georg Baum wrote: > I am historic? Not at all (or you will be historic in next year, too). While doing my PhD, I think it was my professor who said that you become an export on a (minor) topic in six months. So becoming historic in a year sounds about right to me :-) /C --

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Well, I've lost some battles in LyX development already. The problem is that most of the changes I envision would need full support of maintainers so I loose. My available time is not much so I can't afford to spend time on things that will not be accepted. I have the

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Well, I've lost some battles in LyX development already. The problem is that most of the changes I envision would need full support of maintainers so I loose. My available time is not much so I can't afford to spend time on things that will not

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Well, I've lost some battles in LyX development already. The problem is > that most of the changes I envision would need full support of > maintainers so I loose. My available time is not much so I can't afford > to spend time on things that will not be accepted. I have

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Well, I've lost some battles in LyX development already. The problem is that most of the changes I envision would need full support of maintainers so I loose. My available time is not much so I can't afford to spend time on things that will not

Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People are just afraid of potential bad thing that could happen if we touch the build system. I

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People are just afraid of

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Michael Gerz
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I would like to propose a simpler way forward. 1) move non lyx core source code that depend on config.h defined macro to src/support/: mainly gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] 2) make src/support/ a real library with its own autotools machinery. This library could be code

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 11:39 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People are just afraid of potential bad

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Georg Baum a écrit : Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 11:39 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People are just afraid

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Gerz a écrit : However: If you touch the auto* stuff beware that this will delay 1.5.0 for months with little benefit for the end user!!! 1.5.0 is not going to happen soon anyway Michael. Abdel, if I remember correctly, you want to release 1.5.0 rather sooner than later because of

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: It is not friday so no need to argue for days. A simple yes or no from main historic devels should be enough. Lars: JMarc: Georg: Martin: Juergen: I don't think you mean Jürgen Vigna, who is a real historic devel, contrary to me. For my part, I'd leave the

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes wrote: It is not friday so no need to argue for days. A simple yes or no from main historic devels should be enough. Lars: JMarc: Georg: Martin: Juergen: I don't think you mean Jürgen Vigna, who is a real historic devel, contrary to me. For my

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 06 May 2006 14:54, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess that would be a no from JMarc and Lars so let's just forget about this thread. Sorry for the noise. Since it looks that as I am getting old I am getting a bit wiser let me tell an history of persistence and success (I hope).

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Saturday 06 May 2006 14:54, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess that would be a no from JMarc and Lars so let's just forget about this thread. Sorry for the noise. [wise word from an old man] Moral of the story: If you believe in something fight for it and choose your

Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People are just afraid of potential bad thing that could happen if we touch the build system. I

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) > > Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to > autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People > are just afraid of

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Michael Gerz
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I would like to propose a simpler way forward. 1) move non lyx core source code that depend on "config.h" defined macro to "src/support/": mainly gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] 2) make src/support/ a real library with its own autotools machinery. This library could be

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Georg Baum
Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 11:39 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) > > Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to > autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People > are just afraid of potential

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Georg Baum a écrit : Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 11:39 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: First thanks to JMarc and Georg for a great Friday :-) Angus rightfully warned me that I will face great resistance here wrt to autotools. I believe it is more inertia than a religious issue. People are just afraid

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Gerz a écrit : However: If you touch the auto* stuff beware that this will delay 1.5.0 for months with little benefit for the end user!!! 1.5.0 is not going to happen soon anyway Michael. Abdel, if I remember correctly, you want to release 1.5.0 rather sooner than later because of

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > It is not friday so no need to argue for days. A simple yes or no from > main historic devels should be enough. > Lars: > JMarc: > Georg: > Martin: > Juergen: I don't think you mean Jürgen Vigna, who is a real historic devel, contrary to me. For my part, I'd leave the

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes wrote: It is not friday so no need to argue for days. A simple yes or no from main historic devels should be enough. Lars: JMarc: Georg: Martin: Juergen: I don't think you mean Jürgen Vigna, who is a real historic devel, contrary to me. For my

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 06 May 2006 14:54, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I guess that would be a "no" from JMarc and Lars so let's just forget > about this thread. Sorry for the noise. Since it looks that as I am getting old I am getting a bit wiser let me tell an history of persistence and success (I hope).

Re: Moving gettex.[Ch] and messages.[Ch] to src/support/

2006-05-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Saturday 06 May 2006 14:54, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I guess that would be a "no" from JMarc and Lars so let's just forget about this thread. Sorry for the noise. [wise word from an old man] Moral of the story: If you believe in something fight for it and choose