Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex wrote: > > > > LyX is for everybody, not just for thoose who has the latest technology > > on their desk. > > André is fundamentally right here. None of the core developers have access > to > a Win95 machine, so fixing Win95 bugs has very low priority. >
I tend to agree with both Alex and Angus on this point. Sure, developers work in /development/---backwards compatibility is surely a desideratum, but the time arrow goes forward, according to all known laws of physics; and sometimes the desideratum hinders development---again, consider M$ as an example... Moreover, in a basically volunteer driven project, desiderata works only if there are volunteers. Moreover, I am not very optimistic on this side either. AFAIK, LyXWin may work on Win95 only as a console filter, like tex2lyx: the main GUI toolkit, Qt, may not be able to run on top of Win95. In fact, lyx it already runs as console filter on Win95, using cygwin as the background API. Most `modern' apps support Win98+ natively, and I think that's reasonable to ask for... `native' Win95 console filtering is a desideratum, not a high priority goal... > > <shrug>The only way to be sure a bug is squashed is to take up the bug > squasher yourself and squash it.<\shrug> > I think I have the squasher somewhere... let me see... do we have the NewAPI.h patch somewhere in the cvs tree? Where should I look for to see the existing patches? Luis.
