Hartmut Haase wrote: > I'm really surprised about what I have started. For several years > nobody cared about anything different from the standard makeindex > call, and now after I made a proposal to include parameter settings > into the preferences menu we have endless discussions. Why can't we > just carry on with my proposal and see if it is sufficient for the > users?
Your code has been in the source base for a week. I spent a little time getting the UI to work by hooking up your form_preferences.fd changes to FormPreferences.C but the original patch was essentially fine. Thanks for that. (I added a Qt frontend too.) So, I'm a little confused by your comments above. Perhaps you don't realize that your contribution is already in the CVS tree? One USER, Martin, has a desire to pass the document language to xindy. The discussions were essentially a to-and-fro of "How do I do X?" "By doing this ... and that ..." His code is also now in CVS. Two other USERs, Juergen and Jean-Marc, are interested in having the ability to choose an index style file. Hence their discussions. That's the nature of Open Source development. There is no grand plan. It's all just "I want this" and "I want that" that provides the motivation to get stuff done. -- Angus
