Am 03.06.2013 um 02:58 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org>: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 10:47:01AM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 02.06.2013 um 10:24 schrieb Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de>: >>> , or trac: >>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxgit/src/support/Package.cpp?annotate=blame >>> >>> . This tells you that Enrico introduced the quote_python argument in >>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/c73eb3497aa3e34b2536cf44071053d30d5c5166/lyxgit >>> >>> . Since Enrico is an expert in these things I would use a little bit of >>> cargo cult and keep the quote_python flag. Or better, ask him about the >>> reasons and document them. >> >> @Enrico: what do you say what should be done here? > > Eh... this was more than four years ago, so I had to reconstruct the facts. > At the time of the commit above, there was no parser for QProcess, so I > had to use the quote_python flag for obtaining something which could be > directly passed to Qt. Shortly after, I wrote the parser but forgot that > flag, apparently. Hopefully, it can be ditched safely now.
Ok, thank you. I'll make a test case and see what should be done. Stephan