Release management dissertation

2007-08-01 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
Hi, See http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr-phd.pdf for a dissertation about the role of release management in open source projects. I have not read all of it, but it does contain some interesting thoughts about whether to use feature based releases, or time based releases. Also, it to

Re: LyX 1.5.0 is released

2007-08-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:21:19PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > On 8/1/07, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > > > > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 > > > === > > > > > > We are pleased to announce the release

Re: Crashes caused child document and Toc panel.

2007-08-01 Thread Bo Peng
> Still tracing... The problem is found: 1. updateToc is triggered by signal structureChange, which is needed to validate references in the Toc dialog. 2. signal structureChange is connected to the master buffer at first 3. when the first child is loaded, the master buffer is still connected, a

Re: Crashes caused child document and Toc panel.

2007-08-01 Thread Bo Peng
I traced this problem and found something strange. When the child documents are loaded, after LoadLyxFile, updateLabels are called, and release a structureChanged() signal, which calls LyXView::updateToc() to update the Toc dialog (QToc::update()). It is strange to me that after the second child d

Re: LyX 1.5.0 is released

2007-08-01 Thread Bo Peng
> I just tried to download 1.5.0 and noticed that it is temporarily > unavailable. Is the compression problem solely related to Windoze? If > so, why should everyone else that uses the program be punished? > Couldn't the windoze installers be temporarily unavailable, but the > tar.gz files still be

Re: LyX 1.5.0 is released

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On 8/1/07, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 > > === > > > > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0. I just tried to download 1.5.0 and noticed that it is temporari

Re: No pdf export in lyx1.5.0rc2

2007-08-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerard Bekking wrote: Hello It seems not possible to export lyx documents to pdf. Using the acrobat icon gives a view but the file goes to the tmp directory if you save it. Your PDF viewer does not have something like File -> Save As? (Acrobat Reader has File -> Save a copy, which opens a fi

No pdf export in lyx1.5.0rc2

2007-08-01 Thread Gerard Bekking
Hello It seems not possible to export lyx documents to pdf. Using the acrobat icon gives a view but the file goes to the tmp directory if you save it. Only opening DVI-view and saving as pdf gives the resul needed. -- Groeten, Gerard Bekking

Re: [PATCH-updated] Bug 3676--Citation Bug

2007-08-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:12:20PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > > >>>Passing a std::map by value seems wrong. > >>> > >>Yes. Made it const &. This required a const_cast, but that seems ok. > >> > >Not really. > > > It's necessary because I want to use operator[] on the ma

Re: Crashes caused child document and Toc panel.

2007-08-01 Thread Bo Peng
> Note that there's no crash under MacOS (Intel Mac OS X.4.10). gcc will not crash. The assertion is from MSVC 8's "debug iterator support" feature. Basically, when a container is changed, all its iterators will be invalidated. In this case, I suspect that the opening of the child document, and t

Re: Collapsable CharStyles [Beyond 1.5]

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Heck
Martin Vermeer wrote: I think this is the way to go. A layout item Inset, from which CharStyle is only one of many applications. Requires careful thinking through of what configurability we want to allow in the layout file. I would love the inset to have a dialog with user-defined menu entries e

Re: [PATCH-updated] Bug 3676--Citation Bug

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Heck
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:19:33AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Yes, I agree. This is needed, IIRC (I did this a while ago), for certain constants, e.g.: static const docstring TheBibliographyRef(from_ascii("TheBibliographyRef")); which was in frontends/controllers/fron

Re: Crashes caused child document and Toc panel.

2007-08-01 Thread Mael Hilléreau
Selon Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Abdel, > > Could you confirm this bug? > > 1. open the attached test.lyx > 2. document -> outline > 3. click on child2.lyx, and load > > lyx crashes. Note that there's no crash under MacOS (Intel Mac OS X.4.10). Mael.

Re: Keymaps

2007-08-01 Thread Dov Feldstern
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 05:20:27PM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote: [...] But anyhow, I'm not sure how much any of this is really relevant to the issue of keymaps. What I'm suggesting is that generally, if the user has the "use keymaps" option marked, then by switching the langua

Re: Use Computer Algebra System with LyX

2007-08-01 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:05:27PM +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > Does this menu entry works? I works for toy problems only. Andre'

Re: Crashes caused child document and Toc panel.

2007-08-01 Thread Bo Peng
Abdel, Could you confirm this bug? 1. open the attached test.lyx 2. document -> outline 3. click on child2.lyx, and load lyx crashes. This only happens on windows with msvc. Because scons is not great for msvc debugging, I have not figure out what is going on Cheers, Bo test.lyx Descript

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Bennett Helm
On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK. Please apply to trunk and branch. Frankly, I am too tired to debug boost::iostreams. Agreed. I would have liked to upgrade to boost 1.34.1 too, but this will be for 1.5.2. The patches are in n

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. Please apply to trunk and branch. Frankly, I am too tired to debug > boost::iostreams. Agreed. I would have liked to upgrade to boost 1.34.1 too, but this will be for 1.5.2. The patches are in now, but I did not take much time to test them. People, pleas

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Bo Peng
> To be more precise, here is the patch that I propose to apply > (slightly cleaned up version of Bo's). I added automake stuff, what > needs to be done for cmake? OK. Please apply to trunk and branch. Frankly, I am too tired to debug boost::iostreams. Is there any chance to fix middle-button pas

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jürgen Spitzmüller) writes: > Huh? > http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=118595157304160&w=2 Just when I thought you were gone already... Have a nice vacation, JMarc

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I propose to apply the patch to 1.5.1svn now, wait a bit to see what > happens and then release 1.5.1 as it stands. Would it make sense? To be more precise, here is the patch that I propose to apply (slightly cleaned up version of Bo's). I added

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I propose to apply the patch to 1.5.1svn now, wait a bit to see what > happens and then release 1.5.1 as it stands. Would it make sense? > > I agree this is a delay, but we cannot afford to be wrong another time. FWIW, I agree. > I see that Jose and Juergen carefully

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I tested the compression feature on all kinds of documents including 1.4 >> documents and the Linux document from Bo. I did not find any problems. >> The same code has also been used in many 1.4 releases and works fine there. > > Did you upload this installe

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> With this patch things seem to work fine. I can open your file and save >> & open files with compression enabled. I'm uploading 1.5.0-2 installers >> right now. > > Please do not distribute new stuff unless this is _thoroughly_ tested. I propose to ap

Offline

2007-08-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
I'm offline for three weeks as of tomorrow. Until I'm back, Jean-Marc and José maintain the stable branch, so you can keep on committing fixes with their permission. If releasing 1.5.1 turns out to be necessary due to the compression bug or some other severe issue, don't let anything stop you ;

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Bo Peng
> I tested the compression feature on all kinds of documents including 1.4 > documents and the Linux document from Bo. I did not find any problems. > The same code has also been used in many 1.4 releases and works fine there. Did you upload this installer? I think this is the best we can do for no

Re: [Cvslog] r19269 - /lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/status.15x

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jürgen Spitzmüller) writes: > Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> forgot that > > Too bad. I just was about to admonish you. I know. The worse is that I spent a lot of time drafting this miserable line of text, so you have had ample time. JMarc

Re: [Cvslog] r19269 - /lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/status.15x

2007-08-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > forgot that Too bad. I just was about to admonish you. Jürgen

Re: [PATCH] Re: Current svn: Crash with pdfsync

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jürgen Spitzmüller) writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> José, Jürgen, can I apply to trunk and branch. It is truly trivial. > > OK. Done. JMarc

Re: 1.5.0 "slowness"

2007-08-01 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:39:03AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "The figure float box is roughly the full width of the window, but > >> in fact it is changing a small amount with every keypress. This > >> causes the figures to move because the

w2l parameters (odt->lyx)

2007-08-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
hi, i tried to import odt to lyx via w2l (05beta3) convertor and the conversion didnt suceeded because of parameters given by lyx when reconfiguring. this was set by default by lyx w2l -clean $$i when i change it to w2l -clean -latex $$i it starts to import, however i'm not sure whether this i

Re: Use Computer Algebra System with LyX

2007-08-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Does this menu entry works? I have tried it but not got it to work. Is there > any plans to develop this feature? i remember some time ago i used it with maxima and it worked for me. pavel

Use Computer Algebra System with LyX

2007-08-01 Thread Andreas Karlsson
Dear LyX developers, Under the Edit > Math menu in LyX there is an entry Use Computer Algebra System. Does this menu entry works? I have tried it but not got it to work. Is there any plans to develop this feature? Compared with LyX's commercial counterpart Scientific WorkPlace, which is in

Re: Compress file corrupted

2007-08-01 Thread Joost Verburg
Andre Poenitz wrote: With this patch things seem to work fine. I can open your file and save & open files with compression enabled. I'm uploading 1.5.0-2 installers right now. Please do not distribute new stuff unless this is _thoroughly_ tested. I tested the compression feature on all kinds

Re: LyX 1.5.0 is released

2007-08-01 Thread Charles de Miramon
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 > === > > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0. Congratulations for all. It was great to see all this energy going into LyX lately. Riding my hobby horse, I would say that the qt p

Re: 1.5.0 "slowness"

2007-08-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "The figure float box is roughly the full width of the window, but >> in fact it is changing a small amount with every keypress. This >> causes the figures to move because they are in a centred >> paragraph." > > Yes, I have noticed this too over a slow