Peter Kümmel wrote: > If you are not a developer and you need listings you throw away LyX,
How do you substantiate that statement? What data do you have about users that have thrown away LyX for exactly that reason? > and when you are developer but you don't need it then you are not interested > in implementing it. As with any other feature. > But I agree that it is a bad timing that we wanna add it > now. And this is the crucial point. There are x other features that could be implemented now for the same reasons. Too late, too bad (IMO). > > I think such a new feature like this needs really intensive testing and > > discussion. An ad hoc release is just too risky IMO. > > What are the risks? > Some more bug reports? We will never have a zero bug release. > When a user could circumvent the risk by simple > not using listings then I think it is ok. The risk it that we implement it in a way that is not thoroughly pondered (because of lacking time). Georg already pointed out that he sees several things that have to be thought about carefully with the listings implementation. No doubt Bo has thought carefully about what he proposes. Anyway, further testing might reveal that the implementation has to be done differently in some major points. If we release ad hoc, it will be much more difficult to get back. But apart from that (and independent from the specific patch and feature), I just think it's long overdue to stop putting things in 1.5 that are not strictly fixing bugs. Jürgen
