On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:49:50PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> And while the LyX community discusses the pros and cons of various 
> frontends, wonders whether there is a need to maintain multiple 
> frontends and whether a GUII is a good thing (even though it may not 
> longer serve its original purpose), while the LyX community implements a 
> bunch of configure scripts to make LyX run on various *nix platforms and 
> on Windows ... the world keeps on turning and, suddenly, someone 
> reimplements LyX as a full-functioning, good-looking (source code _and_ 
> GUI) platform independent Java program (with minimal effort)!

Impossible for performance reasons. Even today, and quite likely not
tomorrow.

Andre'

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