Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-06 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:25:30PM +, John Levon wrote: | > > Having something to work on would have made me much happier and I | > > certainly would not have considered leaving lyx development. | > | > I'm still at a complete loss why you had to st

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:25:30PM +, John Levon wrote: > > Having something to work on would have made me much happier and I > > certainly would not have considered leaving lyx development. > > I'm still at a complete loss why you had to stop working just because > you couldn't commit to the

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:11:19AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > We have been talking about using cvs branches for ages but nobody has ever > bothered, simply because noone else would bother to check out this branch > and either (a) comment or (b) help. Nonetheless, the branches we have did get

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:54:13AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > Having something to work on would have made me much happier and I > certainly would not have considered leaving lyx development. I'm still at a complete loss why you had to stop working just because you couldn't commit to the main b

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:49:31PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> It is too late during any freeze. With your proposal of "stuff > Andre> to be fixed under all circumstances" we just run into a > Andre> deadlock: Some problem will be discovered in a freeze, nothing > Andre> clean can b

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Schmitt
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I see you were not the guy who had to try to sort out problems in 1.2.0 or 1.2.1. I can tell you that trying to get bugs fixed when people are more interested in kernel reworks is a real pain. This may be true about big bugs in the kernel. But don't forget that we hav

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> The final product will be more stable if stuff is fixed Andre> properly. The difference, of course is the date. Andre> The real question is do we want a rock solid 1.3 in 2008 or a Andre> somewhat broken 1.3 the day after tomorrow.

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> It is too late during any freeze. With your proposal of "stuff Andre> to be fixed under all circumstances" we just run into a Andre> deadlock: Some problem will be discovered in a freeze, nothing Andre> clean can be done about it be

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:29:34AM +0100, Michael Schmitt Andre> wrote: >> BTW: If you intend to work with many branches in the future, you >> should have a look at http://subversion.tigris.org Andre> I think we can't afford workin

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:51:26AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > You have not exactly been persistent about getting this fixed... It has not been reproducible so far. I've tried several times. _I_ believe lyx core it too complex for me to understand, so if _I_ had t fix it I would have to ri

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:43:15AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | until you remove my karma. This way I don't feel bad for not fixing broken > | stuff > > So then you can claim that "I know there are broken stuff and I'd be > happy to fix it, but I am not able to play nice so my karma was >

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Undo crashes are critical for me as I currently get them about once a day | although I know that I have to avoid multiple undos. And I already lost a | few lines although this is "impossible". You have not exactly been persistent about getting this fixe

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:29:34AM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote: > BTW: If you intend to work with many branches in the future, you should > have a look at http://subversion.tigris.org I think we can't afford working on many branches. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to g

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:08:30AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | Next time please set fixed dates, and if the stuff is not ready, scrap the | > | release plans and let everybody go on. | > | > In this kind of project fixed dates are bad bad ba

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:03:02AM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote: > IMHO there should also be a list of open issues/bugs that must be fixed > under all circumstances. > Such a list should be set up by all developers > about a month before the next release. Today there is bugzilla with the > oppor

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angus> Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> The best would probably be do create four rpms. (or three) >> >> ipzone-xforms ipzone-qt ipzone-common ipzone-doc >> >> xforms and qt would basically only contain the binaries. What about putting th

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Schmitt
Angus Leeming wrote: Indeed. Actually, we could turn it around and create a 'release' branch using exactly the same procedure as used by JMarc in his 'stable' branches. The only difference is that we have much more back porting. Moreover, if it turns out that people just continue developing in

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: >> Of course, we don't have to release each time some new, but stable, >> addition is made to head, but can accumulate several changes. In fact, it >> sounds a bit like the way JMarc manages his stable branches. >> >> What do you think? > > We certainly need a means to handle

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:11:19AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Of course, we don't have to release each time some new, but stable, addition > is made to head, but can accumulate several changes. In fact, it sounds a > bit like the way JMarc manages his stable branches. > > What do you think?

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:08:30AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Next time please set fixed dates, and if the stuff is not ready, scrap the > | release plans and let everybody go on. > > In this kind of project fixed dates are bad bad bad. Ok. So next time I'll keep commiting math stuff a

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Schmitt
Andre Poenitz wrote: Having the release five weeks after the real code freeze does not sound to bad to me. Next time please set fixed dates, and if the stuff is not ready, scrap the release plans and let everybody go on. IMHO there should also be a list of open issues/bugs that must be fix

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:47:48AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | Is completely independent of the rest of the world, and can be >> | stabilized in five minutes by just switching back to "last known good". >> >> Is that stabilizing? I thought that counted as revert

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:47:48AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | Is completely independent of the rest of the world, and can be stabilized | > | in five minutes by just switching back to "last known good". | > | > Is that stabilizing? I thoug

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:47:48AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Is completely independent of the rest of the world, and can be stabilized > | in five minutes by just switching back to "last known good". > > Is that stabilizing? I thought that counted as reverting and ditching. The chanc

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:45:25AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > The only delay now is a couple of days for the translation people to > catch up a bit. > > It won't be long now... Please set a fixed date. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not h

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | We currently spend more time with doing nothing waiting for releases | > than | with actual work. This was already bad with 1.2, but its now close | > to | five months that we are waiting for 1.3. | | I still believe this | > time had better be inve

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:04:36AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | NOOO! | > | > I guess the "N*O" is for the prospect of delaying 1.3.0? | | I don't think any delay _now_ is a

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:09:21AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > We could delay the rpm generation, and just provide the tar.gz at > first. We just supply a broken spec file with it :-/ Fine with me. Btw, rpm seems to build fine with srcdir != builddir right now. > | We currently spend mo

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:04:36AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | NOOO! > > I guess the "N*O" is for the prospect of delaying 1.3.0? I don't think any delay _now_ is a good idea. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:51:10PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > Or... perhaps we should delay 1.3.0 a bit to put this into place... | | No further 1.3.0 delay, _please_. We could delay the rpm generation, and just provide the tar.gz at first.

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:00:42PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: | > > Or... perhaps we should delay 1.3.0 a bit to put this into place... it | > > would fit the xforms and qt better | > | > I think that that is a good idea. Otherwise, we end up looking a

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Goodness, you've been busy. One changes and lyx.spec compiles: | | In Makefile.am, change | $(LN_S) -f $(srcdir)/lib/images/lyx.xpm . | to | cp $(srcdir)/lib/images/lyx.xpm /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ Hmm... mine does not need that.. |

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | | On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:51 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > | Or can you just modify the existing spec file to make 4 rpms and be done | | > | with it? | | > | | > yes. | | > | | > But I w

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:00:42PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Or... perhaps we should delay 1.3.0 a bit to put this into place... it > > would fit the xforms and qt better > > I think that that is a good idea. Otherwise, we end up looking a bit > amateurish. NOOO

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:51:10PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Or... perhaps we should delay 1.3.0 a bit to put this into place... No further 1.3.0 delay, _please_. We currently spend more time with doing nothing waiting for releases than with actual work. This was already bad with 1.2, b

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:53:43PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > What about having a shell script that launches the correct binary > depending on a flag? I guess users can arrange that on their own. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have,

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:51 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > | Or can you just modify the existing spec file to make 4 rpms and be > | > | done with it? > | > > | > yes. > | > > | > But I will not change anyt

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:59:37AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > This is how far I got... not really working and giving errors... space missing after --with-frontend=qt regards john

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:51 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | Or can you just modify the existing spec file to make 4 rpms and be done | > | with it? | > | > yes. | > | > But I will not change anything for 1.3.0. | > | > Or... perhaps we should

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:51 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Or can you just modify the existing spec file to make 4 rpms and be done > | with it? > > yes. > > But I will not change anything for 1.3.0. > > Or... perhaps we should delay 1.3.0 a bit to put this into place... it > would fit th

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 4 Feb 2003, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:46:05PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | > The best would probably be do create four rpms. (or three) | > | >

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > The best would probably be do create four rpms. (or three) | > | > ipzone-xforms | > ipzone-qt | > ipzone-common | > ipzone-doc | > | > xforms and qt would basically only contain the binaries. | | And what's the best wa

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > The best would probably be do create four rpms. (or three) > > ipzone-xforms > ipzone-qt > ipzone-common > ipzone-doc > > xforms and qt would basically only contain the binaries. And what's the best way to do that? A single rpmdist target in Makefile.am, as now, th

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Christian Ridderström
On 4 Feb 2003, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:46:05PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > The best would probably be do create four rpms. (or three) > | > Just a general thought: I'd probably want to be able to run bot

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:46:05PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > The best would probably be do create four rpms. (or three) | > | > ipzone-xforms | > ipzone-qt | > ipzone-common | > ipzone-doc | | Ok. And what is the reasoning behind the change

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:46:05PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > The best would probably be do create four rpms. (or three) > > ipzone-xforms > ipzone-qt > ipzone-common > ipzone-doc Ok. And what is the reasoning behind the change of LyX's name into 'ipzone'? Andre' -- Those who desire t

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Angus Leeming wrote: | | > Just a thought. Should we have different names for the qt and xforms | > executable? People won't be able to install rpms for both otherwise. | | Well why would one use both? Traditionalists will use lyx-xforms. All

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
Angus Leeming wrote: > Just a thought. Should we have different names for the qt and xforms > executable? People won't be able to install rpms for both otherwise. Well why would one use both? Traditionalists will use lyx-xforms. All other users will probably use lyx-qt. Noone will use both. It

Re: will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:12:26PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Just a thought. Should we have different names for the qt and xforms > executable? People won't be able to install rpms for both otherwise. > > At least, I assume that that is the case. Feel free to disabuse me. We could call it ly

will lyx-qt and lyx-xforms rpms be incompatible?

2003-02-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Just a thought. Should we have different names for the qt and xforms executable? People won't be able to install rpms for both otherwise. At least, I assume that that is the case. Feel free to disabuse me. Also, since they (presumably) share the same documentation and indeed configuration, shou