On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:49:42PM +0100, José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2007 21:35:46 Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > Enrico, in the interest of historical truth (whatever that is :-) ), I have > suggested (as release manager) to re-enable it for 1.5 after Greve's meeting. > The only person who replied to me was Geog that said that he was no more > interested.
Sure, it would have been easier to keep it alive than trying to rise it again from the dead. > > > > > 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. > > Oh yes, and when I proposed to reborn it again all the friends ignored > it. ;-) Take this with lots of literary salt. :-) See above, please. > > The same holds true for the gtk frontend. If they had stayed in trunk, > > maybe we could still have a choice, now no more. > > With all the due respect Enrico I don't buy that. Again if someone comes > with an update version it will be taken, as discussed initially, nothing has > changed in that regard. Dragging an incomplete frontend is not a nice way to > use our available resources. Yes, they are better spent in adding new build systems. I stand in my opinion that the Qt3 and gtk frontends were murdered. > > 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. > > ... ;-) This is the only exception I will do. I repeat, you have your truth and it is not worth continuing this discussion. -- Enrico
