-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry to jump in on that discussion. Feel free to ignore me. I'm just a happy Lyx user.
José Matos wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:49, Edwin Leuven wrote: >> where's the problem? qt4 is in all the major distributions... > The issue is the care we take with our user base. Not all users install the > latest and greatest. I have been in places where all the software is > installed by system administrators. > > In those places the software is updated yearly (at the best), and if lyx is > not an easy install they will defer that operation. If that is the case, people will be happy to use 1.4.X for the next year, because this sort of people will not install a freshly released major version anyway. Knowing that others disagree, I wager that people who are conservative with versions (but no Lyx developer) will be happy to stick with that for another while. That is what stable versions are for. > As a developer I like to use (and I do it) the latest versions. As a > release > manager I must care with the expectations from our users. If all major distributions have qt4 ready, and the next major version of KDE is going to be based on it, I don't see why you shouldn't work towards supporting that. Why not iron out the kinks and issues in your development version now? Development should be forward-looking, not backward looking. Again: people (and distributions) that are version conservative will stick to 1.4.X anyway. >> am i the only one who is bored with this non-discussion? > It is a matter of defining targets. So what is your target: Catering the status quo, which should be happy with the current stable release, or dedicating resources to provide a good major release to the software environment that most people will have installed when 1.5 is released. SCNR, Sebastian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFCV33btVRNeSDtgERAgEUAKCnUDfgiSy8RGWvkBja0JkowczZTQCgmSKY Dj5/kMP4x6GBSgNyUsCHDwU= =xg/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
