On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:37:25PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:59:36PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > There have been already complaints for the dismission of the Qt3 > > frontend by the FreeBSD people. There are other systems in the world > > other than Windows and Linux. > > So they should f******* spend _their_ time on a Qt3 frontend but not > mine. Being queer is surely nice and acceptable, but being queer _and > blaming others for being less so_ is not.
The Qt3 frontend was dismissed even if there were people willing to maintain it. > This, btw, holds true for Cygwin users, too. I am a cygwin user, and for having the possibility of using a cygwin version of lyx, I had to make up myself as a developer. I simply don't have the time and the skill to maintain a Qt3 frontend, too. > > > FWIW, I don't really care about the bells and whistles, there are enough > > > of them to use even in Qt 4.0. But I do care about conditional > > > compilations to avoid bugs in Qt 4.1. I also do care about code > > > simplification that would results in a switch to 4.2 (I'm thinking about > > > Edwin's toolbar widget for example). > > > > Then go ahead and require a Qt snapshot such that you can have more > > fun and less problems. > > > > > PS: Qt 4.1.5 was released October 20, 2006. But Qt 3.3.8 was released > > > February, 14 2007. Yet we don't use it ;-) > > > > And that is a real shame. > > This is ridiculous. Ipse dixit. -- Enrico
