[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Do you recall the attempt -- five years ago or more? -- to do a major rewrite
| that was scuttled? The coding effort reverted back to the in-place,
| functional--hack-laden--code, in the interests of continuing to improve LyX
| over a reasonable time frame.
Do you also remember that I did almost all of that work, and I did it
so fast and badly that we had to ditch the whole thing?
| Sure, LyX today is very nice, sparkling and clean, at least under the hood.
That would have been nice...
| Why such fundamental user interface elements are still being tweaked
| is beyond
| me. It must reflect the kind of dramatic differences in goals and
| objectives I mentioned above.
Perhaps.... we do not only want to be laden with features, we also
strive to do things right.
| For what it's worth, this "new" LyX, doesn't look so familiar to me.
How long does it take to become familiar? And why should it be a goal
to lyx to stay that way? (at all costs?)
| A casual attitude toward the GPL is how licenses work? I don't
| understand your
| point. And many consider the GPL a good, not an unfortnate, necessary evil.
I do not want to be casual, but I see the need to be a bit pragmatic.
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Lgb
