I would be in disagreement with Charles. Lyx has a massive range of users from latex experts to novices. Power users will be incredibly upset if Lyx does something that changes a working configuration without notifying them first. It is even more important to get it right before release since it affects the install. From my experience, I would probably not upgrade Lyx if it changed MikTex if say, I had a publication that had to get out or a dissertation that was almost finished. I remember frantically trying to debug a beamer presentation because Lyx changed something with Beamer... a day or two before I had to get it printed.
I, for one, greatly appreciate holding up something as massively disruptive as a latex engine upgrade until it can be properly communicated to the greater audience. Still, expect to see a bunch of questions regarding this. Thanks, ~Ben On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 8:11 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:27:25PM +0000, Charles Roddie wrote: > > What matters most of all is a release. I understand that Windows release > has been held up by extensive discussions over this issue of whether to > include a dialog. This is a minor issue as few people read dialogs. Having > a dialog is fine, and not having a dialog is fine. > > Thanks for the feedback. > > > Not having a version available for Windows however is a major problem > for users. > > If there's one thing everyone here agrees on, it is this. > > > Also may I suggest that you upgrade your email list to a forum? It's > unclear how to interact with this list without reading > https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists<https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc2> > in detail in its entirety and even then it's not self-contained. > > > > Apologies for the complaints: I appreciate the work of the lyx > developers and the new features in 2.3 sound great. > > Thanks, > > Scott >
