John Pye wrote:
More coffee will only heighten my paranoia! Seriously, LyX is a GUI
application but it makes no effort at being GUI-friendly during the
document build process. It wouldn't be that hard to add a 'progress'
dialog box for this stuff?
With current architecture yes, a bit hard. But
John Pye wrote:
As I argued above, LyX contains *its own* build system: it defines tools
and file transformations, dependency tracking and caching. Because it
contains all of these things internally it makes using it within an
external build system much more difficult that it should be.
I think
Hi Andre,
Thanks for these comments. More follows:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:52:49PM +1000, John Pye wrote:
>
>> Sorry for a bit of a delay on this one. I thought I would follow up with
>> some comments though.
>>
>> Firstly,
>>
>> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
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>
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:52:49PM +1000, John Pye wrote:
> Sorry for a bit of a delay on this one. I thought I would follow up with
> some comments though.
>
> Firstly,
>
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > John> The current system seems (from my rather superficial inspection)
> > John> to revolve
Sorry for a bit of a delay on this one. I thought I would follow up with
some comments though.
Firstly,
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> John> The current system seems (from my rather superficial inspection)
> John> to revolve around lots of little script files written in Python;
>
> It produces the
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John> With the stuff that LyX is already providing for building
> John> documents from all those different source file formats, I wonder
> John> where the limit is -- how much of a full-blow build system to
> John> you develop as part of LyX before
> "John" == John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> The current system seems (from my rather superficial inspection)
John> to revolve around lots of little script files written in Python;
It produces these scripts actually. The logic is in C++ and needs some
information from the data struc
