Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: >> What I did >> not like was that it went in without discussion, > > Georg, I spend way too much time in LyX ATM, I cannot afford to wait for > approval for something as simple as that.
Then why don't you focus on the more important matters? There is plenty of stuff to be fixed, and this problem is relatively unimportant. > As I am obviously the only one > working on that and the only one having a good grasp of what has to be > done, I just commit without notice. I have to work sequentially, one > thing at a time, if I am to do something useful for LyX, it's as simple > as that. I can understand that very well. And I think that it is a good thing that well understood patches with low potential for disagreement simply go in. But I also think that being close to a release does not mean that we should fix all remaining bugs at once, regardless whether we have a good solution or not. > If someone doesn't like it, he can still emit some critics and I'll > welcome them. Saying that this is a hack does not help at all. Either > you have a better solution (that does not involve tens of lines of code) > or you just let it be. You are free to express your opinion of course > but I will just ignore it if it is not constructive. And you are free to ignore it :-) (we both are really generous today, aren't we?) The problem I see with solutions like that is that they will stay forever in the code (we still have some "will be removed after 1.2" comment IIRC), that they will lower the pressure to find a real solution, and that users will get used to a strange UI (why is the caption connected to the first cell?). > Not personal, but I think you focus way too much on details. Hacks (even > if this one is not a hack IMO) are OK at this stage because we want to > release 1.5.0. This is where I disagree. Hacks are only OK if they fix an important bug. > We can think of a better solution, if any, for 1.6 but > let's just be a bit more pragmatic for the time being and focus on more > important matters. Yes, I am trying to be pragmatic all the time. For that reason I think that we should focus on more important stuff and simply let captions in longtables be unsupported. Georg
