On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:33:24PM +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
[Lars said:]
> > I don't think you want 1.0 released. You keep suggestin and wanting to
> > implement new things all the time...
>
> I see.
>
> The problem at hand originated in a bug report, that if it was to be fixed,
> would require changes in the reLyX code in LyX anyway. Therefor, I judged
> that the amount of work to do would be the minimal if Amir changes reLyX to
> do output to standard-out. This would avoid the problems of overwriting
> files, handling tmp-directories, what do to if the user is not using tmp,
> and all that. I judge that the changes in LyX to read the input from
> standard in instead of from a file are pretty simple, but of course it's
> hard to say before you do it.
>
> Of course we can choose not to fix the bug and document it in Bugs instead
> for 1.0.0. And then fix it in 1.0.1 (or simply not fix it in the 1.0.x
> series, but the bug report involved something going completely nuts, so that
> might be a bad decision.)
Well, I"ve now fixed it so that if we get an error in opening the very first
temporary file, then reLyX quits. Admittedly, this means you still can't
import from a readonly directory, but we should be able to avoid the computer
crashing. So at this point is goes from a potentially horrible bug to a bug
which is not that rare, and is definitely annoying, but has a very easy
workaround (just copy the tex file to your working directory). I'd therefore
suggest postponing the decision of exactly how to fix it, and documenting the
bug and its fix (I'll put it in reLyX/BUGS. If someone wants to put it in
lyx/BUGS, that's cool, too.)
-Amir
