On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:47:08PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:52:06PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > 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. > > The Qt3 frontend is still available from svn. If there had been a real > interest in further development it would have happened.
At the time there was interest, but it was nevertheless removed. > > > 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. > > That's true for all of us, that's why there is no Qt3 frontend anymore. There is no Qt3 frontend anymore because it was brutally murdered. The same holds true for the gtk frontend. If they had stayed in trunk, maybe we could still have a choice, now no more. Now I will stop replying to this thread, because a discussion requires that both parties are willing to listen, but trying to rewrite history really annoys me, so I couldn't resist with this last post. -- Enrico
