>> May I say: if I've understood his point, I really don't think this
>> ("not much point in distributing ...") is an issue. Ruurd's port
>> means that people don't have to build lyx for themselves, and that,
>> to many MSWindows users, is precisely the attraction of the port.
>> Otherwise, one could presumably just install cygwin and build
>> against the X11 system (as one can do, eg with TeXMacs, which works
>> fine).I do understand that the port is very attractive and that people do not want to build LyX themselves. However, the idea behind free software is that you give users a product that they can modify themselves freely. This is almost the case with qt 2.3 (as long as people do not want to use it in a commercial setting), but it will definitely not be true anymore when we decide to switch to qt3. Then, only people who have access to a qt license will have the right to modify LyX. I know this looks like a purely ideological point of view. But if you think about it in a more pragmatic way, new developers arrive to LyX because they need this little thing, then add that little other thing, and then move to bigger things. Nobody is going to buy a qt3 license just for the pleasure of becoming a LyX developer. Currently, we would have to modify our license to allow the distribution of lyx/win (the GPL does not allow that), this this means that _every_ developer would have to agree that this is a good idea... JMarc
