On Monday 09 December 2002 10:38 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:28:31AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > | Ok, it's out. > > | > > | Are we going to keep support for xforms 0.88 and 0.89 in LyX 1.3? > > > > _I_ would like us to ditch support for 0.88 and 0.89 at once, > > especially 0.88. > > > > But, at least in an interim period, this will mean a lot of hassle for > > a lot of people. OTOH it will make 1.3.0 debugging and support easier > > for us. > > This is an important (and valid... ;-)) point I believe. > > > It would be nice if we could find some kind of consensus on this one. > > I am using 0.89.6 but I won't mind upgrading to 1.0. > > Installing xforms is not too hard and could be done by the "average power > user". So I am leaning a bit towards the "let's throw it out" side of > things.
Me too. We could perhaps get Kayvan to repackage the LyX 1.2 redhat distro? The most commonly reported xforms bug of the last few months has been crashes in the xforms xpm image loader due to its fragile handling of weird ImageMagik-generated xpm color tables. Ditching support for xforms 0.88 would allow us to disable the xpm image loader and use "can't load natively" -> ppm conversion. Angus
