On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:11:52PM +0100, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: > Andre and others, which have a desire for working with a decent Windows > toolchain, can then ask for the patches and them themselves.
Just to make my position clear: Having LyX work with a pure Windows toolchain has no high priority for me. I certainly would not mind if it did as (a) this variety in used compilers has a potential to find bugs (MSVC has different warnings than e.g. gcc and it is usually worth fixing all of them), (b) I find myself from time to time in a situation where MSVC is the only compiler available, (c) I find myself from time to time in a situation where I have a choice of a *nixish environment and Visual Studio and even if I prefer in that situation the *nixish environment to do bulk programming, certain bugs are easier to find with the VS debugger. So this is mainly about having a choice, not to use a pure Windows toolchain. This also means I do not support a 'make it work without looking at the prize' approach. Hope this makes things a bit clearer. Andre'
