On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among > > other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up > > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of > > Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) > > then I may give it a try again. > > Funny, chosing a do-it-yourself distro and not being able to compile a > single package does not go well together in my opinion. But then, I am > known for having strange opinions... Slackware 12.0 is hardly a do-it-yourself distro. I've been installing versions for almost 10 years, and compiling LyXs for just under that. There are up-to-date packages for Qt, though I compiled the one needed for LyX myself, without problems. Though I can understand the feelings about Qt 4.4, I accept the criteria of the developpers too. I _would_ vote for a 'grace' period of, say 6 months to 1 year, to allow distros to be compiled and distributed with the necessary tools. Not everyone is able to compile a project like Qt (just one reason is that not everyone is able to read the instructions in English). John
