I understand your concerns. Maybe one way of doing it is to simply support as much as one can of what is in TexLive. Once Jurabib and natbib are removed from texlive then one can start to think about retire the function from Lyx as well.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Johannes Wilm wrote: > > Yes, well currently LyX is severely limited in the use of biblatex, the > > system that has been the most popular for the past 5 years or so. > > The first officially stable biblatex version (1.0) is not even half a year > old. The first to be declared "production ready" (0.7) is ~3 years old. > > > Somewhere one has to make the cut-off, else LyX will just become gigantic > > and bloated. But anyways, I would be for keeping legacy support around > > until at least version 3.0. > > Again, not everyone uses biblatex, and this will not change in future. > There > are classes that have builtin natbib support or require other bibliography > approaches. > > We will _not_ go for a biblatex-only solution. With a sane bibliography > interface, this will not lead to bloat. > > Also note that while biblatex is very well maintained, it's still basically > a > one-man project. Nobody knows what happens if Philipp loses interest. This > happened to other ambiguous projects in the past. It happened to jurabib > and > beamer. We do not want to make LyX depend on the phase of the moon. > > Jürgen > -- Johannes Wilm http://www.johanneswilm.org tel: +1 (520) 399 8880
