On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:33:17PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Sure, but how's that going to encourage users to use 1.4.0cvs? > > If the result is still usable, it's usable.
The only people we're going to get using a program that brings up a "everything's screwed message" every 10 minutes are people willing to test lyx. And we already have those people... > Right now we crash e.g. when we can place the cursor correctly after an > 'undo'. Of course it will be annoying to have the cursor jump to pos 0 > in the current par after an exceptionally tricky 'undo', but people have > been living with that since day one for e.g. mathed (cursor always left > mathed on undo()). > > So this is 'more usable' than a plain crash. I'm also worried that people (i.e. the developers) will eventually get used to these sort of regressions and not bother fixing them before release. > Of course, fixing the real problem is nicer and should be prefered in > the long run, but I'd rather have a usable LyX in finite time than an > unusable in infinite time. (mouth firmly clamped shut) regards, john
