On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Edwin Leuven wrote:
> As an example: the changes to FormParagraph just commited by Lars. These are
> needed by ALL frontends (I think). It's undoable to watch cvs 24 hours a day
> to see whether something has been changed in frontend A that should change in
> frontend B as well (undoable for me at least, perhaps not for Lars ;-) ). I
> think Angus' work would achieve this.
Since you have a local CVS tree, you can easily make cvs diffs of changes whenever
you sync up. It's a good idea to browse the diff anyway, to see what people have
been changing.
This is often how I spot frontends/xforms/ changes that apply to KDE.
> Moreover, if people change the way functions/members are called I think they
> should change ALL calls to these functions/members and not only those in
> their favourite frontend!
but this obviously doesn't make sense for any sizeable change (you can't expect
those lyx kernel propellerheads to know and test 10^6 different toolkits).
This is up to the author IMHO. I notice that for example Dekel often changes
the frontends other than xforms which is nice ;)
> Having one central place for all frontends would make this subtantially less
> work.
but definitely Angus' change is a very good thing
john
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