Hi Folks,
We may try to wish-away windows or maybe flame-it-down, but the fact is
that by saying things like -- "don't spend any more effort on developing it
further on Windows", what you are saying is turn the development into a
prejudiced-OpenSource, not a truely world-hugging OpenSource as OpenSource
is meant to be.
I agree that win32 developers needs to pitch-in, but all the people who *
use* Lyx on Windows are not Windows-developers (myself included). I use
Windows because my company (a very large multi-national) chooses to use
Windows. You may say that I should try to influence them to move them to
Linux, but I know that it's easier said than done. A very large set of
applications that my company uses, doesn't have robust-enough or
featureful-enough counterparts on Linux.
Move to Linux can only be gradual, i.e. it needs to be evolutionary and not
an overnight revolution. Just see how the acceptance & popularity of Linux
has grown over the years, and believe me, it has a lot to do with how easy
it was made for Windows user to move to Linux. If you don't do that, Linux
remains a domain of the so-called "nerds".
I'd rather see the members of this list help, support and encourage Lyx
users without trying to judge them based on which OS they run Lyx. Living
with the prejudice "Bill Gates is Evil, Windoze is Evil", helps nobody.
BTW, I own 5 PC's (and 4 of them are multi-boot capable). All my PC's run
Linux (but they also run BSD, Solarix x86, WindowsXP). I am a software
programmer by profession (been that for 8yrs now). I use really wish I could
help with win32 development of Lyx, because I use WindowsXP at work, and
find Lyx quite powerful (well I am still a newbie), but unfortunately my
knowledge of GUI programming is next to 0.
my 2 cents,
bd
