Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-31 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 31-Aug-2001 Andre Poenitz wrote: >> this thread is getting so offtopic it's like a lyx-devel thread ;) > > Don't the Friday Rules apply to anything related to LyX? Nope only LyX-Devel! Jürgen -- -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:06:52AM +0100, John Levon wrote: ^^^ > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:59:33AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: ^^^ > > I agree -- if I install something, I want to be able to use a packaging > > system (in my case, RPM not DEB); not because I can't compile things (

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:59:33AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > I agree -- if I install something, I want to be able to use a packaging > system (in my case, RPM not DEB); not because I can't compile things (me this thread is getting so offtopic it's like a lyx-devel thread ;) I'm sure Kayv

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:27:03PM -0400, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Tuukka Toivonen Spoke Thusly: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > > But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from > > > source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. >

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread James Lindenschmidt
Tuukka Toivonen Spoke Thusly: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from > > source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. > > I disagree. Compiling from source _doesn't_ mean that the user > should be

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Juergen Vigna writes: > > On 30-Aug-2001 Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > > Fair enough. Although, I never said you were BAD, nor bad ... > > No you never said I understood it like that. > God forbid me !! > > Then she has the wrong system administrator ;) > Yes, the one too busy to fix h

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 30-Aug-2001 Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > Fair enough. Although, I never said you were BAD, nor bad ... No you never said I understood it like that. > Sorry, you are wrong. There is neither ksendfax nor xsendfax in SuSE > 7.2 and you can not install packages from 7.1. Check it out. I have > a

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:33:50PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > Andre Poenitz writes: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > > Have you tried to install it on SuSE 7.2 ?? > > > > > > Try it ! > > > > No. Simply because I don't have 7.2. > > > > Why doe

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le Jeudi 30 Août 2001 12:27, vous avez écrit : > Please all you developers of LyX (regardless of how it is pronounced) > don't be discouraged by the complaint replied to below. I agree, from time to time it is good that satisfied users say how they like a program and I really like LyX, it is gre

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Juha Siltala
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > >>But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from >>source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. >> --snip-- > > The GNU ./configure; make; make install is very good, but > for any

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from > source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago. I disagree. Compiling from source _doesn't_ mean that the user should be a programmer. It just has to be easy: it

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Andre Poenitz writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > > Have you tried to install it on SuSE 7.2 ?? > > > > Try it ! > > No. Simply because I don't have 7.2. > > Why does the 7.1 package not install? > > Andre' > > -- > André Pönitz ...

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:45:39PM +0300, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > Have you tried to install it on SuSE 7.2 ?? > > Try it ! No. Simply because I don't have 7.2. Why does the 7.1 package not install? Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Andre Poenitz writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:57:08AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > SuSE 7.1 rpms are on > > http://cgi.tu-chemnitz.de/ftp-home///pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.c > om/suse/i386/7.1/suse/kpa1/ksendfax.rpm > > It took me less than a minute to locate, download, su, and install. > Hav

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic
Juergen Vigna writes: > Dear Sinisa! > > I will Cc: this to the developers list so that all of this "BAD" people > know what you think! > Fair enough. Although, I never said you were BAD, nor bad ... > > Nonsense there are RPM packages for RedHat and I guess you can install > them also for Su

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Thomas Schönhoff
Hello all, I am totally agree to John's statement (although not being a professional software developer! :-) ). Hopefully no ones basic motivation has been serioussly damaged by this little crappy thread before! All the best from an (almost) totally satified user Thomas John O'Gorman wrote: >

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread John O'Gorman
Please all you developers of LyX (regardless of how it is pronounced) don't be discouraged by the complaint replied to below. I regard LyX as the best piece of software ever! For me it has changed writing documentation (the task I used to hate most) into a joy. I can produce high quality, super

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > It took me less than a minute to locate, download, su, and install. > Haven't checked whether it works since I do not have a fax machine. > > > > I work 12 hours per day already. > > And that means what? It means he's a slacker

Re: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:57:08AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > SuSE 7.2 does not have ksendfax, nor does RedHat 7.*. > > > > Why have you done the above ?? > > > > It worked perfectly !! > > > > Now, I have to loose 3 hours of my work to find sources, build, > > install , tweak etc ... I d

RE: Changes in LyX

2001-08-30 Thread Juergen Vigna
Dear Sinisa! I will Cc: this to the developers list so that all of this "BAD" people know what you think! On 29-Aug-2001 Sinisa Milivojevic wrote: > >> The internal fax-facility has been removed from LyX so you need an >> external program (Frontend) to the faxpackage you've installed to be >> a