On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:22:38 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version > > numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README > > and INSTALL that come with the source. As an end-user, either you wait > > for your distro to come with a binary package or you do the required > > step by step things you need to do in order to compile LyX. Many users > > compile LyX without problems. > > Abdel, I think you miss the point that some people do not want to > update their distro, but want to update LyX nevertheless. And many of > these people are faithful LyX users, too. > And if users want to do such stuff, they should be willing to handle non-standard ways of installing things and not expect the developers to work much harder and give up on a lot of features that users that do keep up with modern libraries want. He wants a nice new Ferrari and still fuel it with leaded fuel, it doesn't work that way. > JMarc >
