Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > OK, once again: when 1.5 ships I would expect that people who have > installed a new distribution in July 2006 are not laughed at because > their distribution is really inadequate for using LyX. >
Well the next stable versions of Debian and Mandriva (http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=qt4-common&system=&arch=) will have qt4 packages Suse and Ubuntu already have them For Fedora there are easily available packages http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/qt4 I don't think dropping the qt3 version is going to be very problematic for the user base. It is not like qt is an obscure library like Xforms is. I do understand that for the old guard, it is quite hard to abandon the old concept of one core, multiple gui. But this concept which was much fought for on the mailing lists has not been a success (except maybe for a clearer code) and was at the time more a political decision than a technical one. There are always been a tendancy of LyX developers to go alone there own little Sonderweg. If if I remember right, at some point, John Levon was arguing that we should stay with Qt 2 !! Being multiplatform has clearly gave new blood to LyX, new developers like Abdel, Helge, Bennett and a lot more users. Multiplatform means more complexity and having one core, one buildsystem, one gui is a way to reduce this complexity. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
