On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> On 15-Feb-2001 Michael Schmitt wrote:
> > However, it is my impression that 1.1.6 has been released a bit too early
>
> Well the problem is that we wouldn't have found all the problems with
> the tabulars so fast if we wouldn't have released it to public, only
> few people try cvs-versions HARD :)
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We are not Micro$oft - there is no excuse for using normal users as bug
finders. I actually threw out 1.1.6fix1 and reverted back to 1.1.5fix2;
and I supposedly know what I'm doing. The tabular bugs, the greek letter
math bug, etc. were just too much, and so I nuked it. The sad thing is, I
was trying to convince a colleague that LyX was such a wonderful tool. She
tried 1.1.6fix1 on an instrument manual that I had written, but got so
frustrated that she swore it off and asked for a LaTeX dump to work on
instead. This is not the way to win new users.
I'm not criticizing all the wonderful work you all are doing. I really do
like what I see in 1.1.6 and am looking forward to the new things in 1.2
and beyond, and I'll still be here to help document them. But 1.1.6 (and
fix1) should never have been released as a public, "stable" version,
particularly since it was known that the tabular code wasn't complete.
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I've been trying to figure out a polite way to say this for some time.
Juergen just pushed me over the edge :-)
Mike
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