Andre Poenitz writes:
>
> Pretty easy: LyX is _not_ a fax program. Adding special fax support was a
> Good Thing at the time when LyX's export facilities were limited and fax
> support was needed.
>
> LyX has a much better and more general export mechanism nowadays, so the
> special fax code is not needed anymore. This allows using a combination of
> "small" tools (LyX for writing, a fax program for sending faxes) instead of
> a monolithic program that tries to be everything. That's the pretty much
> the "Unix spirit".
>
> > > We should learn from competition if we are not sure.
>
> We are doing exactly that...
>
> > > Even that rubbish of MS Word has fax sending in the same place it was
> > > 5 years ago ....
>
> ... especially with respect to code bloat.
>
> Andre'
>
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'Unix spirit'... Yes it is. But if we were to follow it I would have
to erase a program I am writting this e-mail with. Or doing 90 % of
the stuff, for that matter.
'Spirit of this and that' is less important then ease of upgrade,
backward compatibility etc ...
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