Michal wrote: > > i dont block AltInstaller, i block EMAltInstaller. it was clear from > > the previous problems that you dont share exactly Uwe's way of > > preparing binary. whether AltInstaller survives is dependent on Uwe's > > decision of the support of the official one. > Ok, I just find it strange to block anything at all - LyX is FLOSS,
i will tell you secret, which will make things hopefully less strange :) they are not the satisfied users who becomes developers, but the frustrated ones. you didn't started this thread because you were happy with the installers state of art, right? not that i'm happy about it but "never annoy users" mantra is not going to help. so my battle is to 1) have complete installer when 2.0 is out. 2) have a single installer at the end. 3) have somebody (new?), who maintains it, even better have clear and bug free instructions, so we are not dependent on a single man like it is now. altinstaller doesn't satisfy completeness and its dev is busy. official one "is claimed" for that, with some announced schedule. creating available installers which imitatites altinstaller is going against all three points. beta4 case was different in two important aspects - Uwe claimed to be here at the end of Feb (!true) & Joost didn't claim to work on official one like now. > > lyx team releases only tarballs. all installers are - up to now - > > single man shows. i'm not going to stop releases if they disappear to > > north pole or are just busy. either they wake up or somebody new takes > > the responsibility. i have been politely asking for months without > > success so there is probably no other way than through this > > frustration, thats it ;) > Ok, now I'm confused: why is installer's source code inside the > official rc1 tarball then? Mark it as 'unsupported' or something, > otherwise it seems simply misleading to me. the one who is responsible for creating installer creates it _after_ i release rc1 and he does it from tarball. i usually wait for day or such so interested parties can create binaries, so annoucement covers them as well... with mac or some linux distros this works well. it worked fine even with win some time back. and if you mean why is _altinstaller_ source is there it waits on Uwe decision. pavel
