On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:40:36PM +0000, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think so. This is an open source project. We, as the LyX > > project, release the source code. > > Understood. Still, the source code release as is is of little use for > most _users_ (at least on Windows & Mac). > > > The binaries are additions contributed by some team members, but not > > a necessarily part of the release proper. > > Should the binaries really just be an "addition" ??? Are they > actually? For example http://www.lyx.org/Download suggests that they > are released from you, "the LyX project", and not from some dubious > third party. > > Half of the users probably don't even understand (and do not need to > know) what "source code" and "binaries" means ...
Pretty Windows-centric view of the world. Which is a bit odd given that LyX on Windows is a fairly recent addition... > All I want to say is: things could be a bit more user-friendly if the > announcement to users (not to devel) is delayed by a few days. The announcement used to be an incentive to build binary packages... Andre'
