On 15/10/2008 08:04, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
It turned out that people misunderstand our beta and release candidate
announcements. So I know from cases where people switched with their
Ph.D. thesis from the stable LyX 1.5.6 to LyX 1.6.0RC3 an now suffer
>from our regression bugs and crashes.
IMO, moving your thesis onto a new release is the only way of giving
programs the real testing kick. If you "just test" it, you might never
trip bugs hidden in dark corners. Only if you *really edit* (consider
that the superlative of "to test") your thesis like you normally do,
these bugs be uncovered. Of course, keeping regular snapshots of your
.lyx file is highly advised — even mandatory I would claim — in such
situations... just in case a cookie monster bug that eats everything
appears.
FWIW, I agree. OK, current rc has some regressions and crashes but the
benefits outweigh the annoyances. 1.6svn is perfectly usable in a day to
day basis AFAIMC. Not to say that the bugs shouldn't be fixed of course
but IMO we should fix a date for the release now independently current
bug statuses. I propose the 1st of November.
Abdel.
