On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > BH <bewih...@gmail.com> writes: >> I haven't been following closely -- too busy at the moment. But from >> what I can tell, the problem on OS X is simply inconvenience for the >> user. If we -- I -- bundle elyxer in the LyX.app bundle, then it's >> transparently there for users. So instead of every user having to do >> this individually with each LyX release, I'd just do it once and for >> all (for each release). > > Alternatively, eLyXer could be submitted to macports, like the others > utilities we rely on (imagemagick, for example). This is the decision of > the binary distributor, ultimately.
What gives me pause is that elyxer has a status that's neither a standard component of LyX (which would be automatically bundled and supported) nor an easily installed add-on (which wouldn't require that we do anything except point to it in the wiki). Consequently, I think we ought to be careful here to ensure consistency over time and over changes in binary distributors. It's in general not a good thing to provide a feature in earlier releases and fail to provide it in later releases, and, impressed though I am with elyxer's progress to date, I'm worried about its status several years into the future. By the way, imagemagick is now (as of 10.5? or was it 10.4?) a standard part of OS X -- no macports required. BH
