Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, > * if you guys want a bare build system that you can build lyx faster, > I can provide one in a few days. You will have to tweak a few > parameters for your system.
> * if you want a cross-platform build system with all the current > options and autoconf-like tests, it will take a few weeks. And I will > most likely only work on one system and rely on others to tweak/test > others. > * if you want a working scons build; scons install etc, it will take > longer, and may never happen. although such things can be found and > adapted from many KDE/Gnome projects, and from NSIS. > What do you think? The auto-tools solution works very well on systems that support the auto-tools. There's absolutely no point in replacing them unless the replacement is at least as good on these same systems. So, by all means do consider a replacement seriously, but realize also that implementing it is a serious undertaking that will almost certainly take up all of your LyX time for the forseeable future. I think that you're in danger of spreading yourself too thin and would counsel doing one thing at a time and doing it well. We know from experience that a big project like LyX can suffer badly from not-quite finished code. Heck, it's taken us five years to clean up the previous ten years' code. LyX 1.4 functionality isn't soooo much greater than that of LyX 1.1, but it's a heck of a lot cleaner inside. You asked ;-) Angus
