I think I have managed to set up my first release tarball, thanks to the very good documentation from Jean-Marc and José. Since it is the first one, I would appreciate if people could text it on different platforms before we release it. You can find the release candidate here: http://www.lyx.org/~spitz/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
If you do not find any problems, this will be released on Monday. You can also start building binaries from this. Please note that I'd like to keep branch frozen until all tests suceeded. Jürgen