On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:25:13PM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> 
> > > Another question is what version of LyX the students should work with... 
> > > it could be frustrating working with the CVS version since it's in a very 
> > > fluctuating state (e.g. sometimes it doesn't even compile).
> > 
> > Everything else would leave us with the need of forward-porting 50 new
> > features. If we stick to 1.3.xcvs we'd end up in the same situation as
> > the change tracking patch. Works for some ancient version only.
> > 
> > 1.4.0cvs is stable enough for this kind of work.
> 
> I was thinking more along the lines of giving the students a branch to 
> work on...

Merging small chunks is _much_ simpler than larger. 

LyX has a bad history with branches (so far only one successful
'large' merge IIRC)

I see no benefit over a regualr 'cvs up'.

Andre'

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