Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2011-01-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pavel Sanda wrote: > hi, > > time to think about beta3. > there is already a couple of things which need to be released > and tested so we should start freezing at certain time. friday night i would like to freeze trunk, let it for testing during the weekend and release new beta in sun/mon... p

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
>> That's why I think more people should be involved so that Uwe, myself and maybe some others >> will at least be reasonable familiar with the code. > > I want to get familiar with the code. It would be nice if I could brew the installers as well. > So, if you will explain what is necessary and

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-22 Thread Joost Verburg
On 12/22/2010 7:31 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Could you at least take care that there are installers available for further LyX releases until I'm back. I can try to build my installer from abroad, but I cannot promise this. I don't expect to have time to write a new installer for 2.0 in Jan-Feb. Als

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> Unfortunately my current job keeps me extremely busy so I'm not sure when I'll have time to work > on this. I will try to start working on some documentation for the build process so Uwe and other > people will also be able to compile LyX with the latest versions of the external dependencies

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> - documentation. Uwe, do you have some expectation about > the time you need/want, so the docs are in good shape > in your view? All issues in this list which are marked green are already well documented: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 I update the docs step by step. 2 weeks ago I finis

RE: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-22 Thread venom00
I would be happy to contribute but I need to understand what's wrong with the current NSIS script. Why do we still use other installers if the NSIS script is ready? Joost, you said it should be rewritten, why? What's missing? Could we put together a list of things the installer should do? Sorry f

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-21 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 22.12.2010 um 01:53 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > Stephan Witt wrote: >> What's your opinion regarding the SystemCall patch? >> I have it at hand. The idea was to be able to collect the >> standard and error output of external startscript(). > > thought i already commented on this... > the patch its

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-21 Thread Joost Verburg
On 12/21/2010 4:39 PM, veno...@arcadiaclub.com wrote: That's why I think more people should be involved so that Uwe, myself and maybe some others will at least be reasonable familiar with the code. If you give me all the necessary info maybe I can help and familiarize with NSIS. I'm pretty expe

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Stephan Witt wrote: > What's your opinion regarding the SystemCall patch? > I have it at hand. The idea was to be able to collect the > standard and error output of external startscript(). thought i already commented on this... the patch itself is good thing to do but should go to trunk but for 2

RE: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-21 Thread venom00
> That's why I think more people should be involved so that Uwe, myself > and maybe some others will at least be reasonable familiar > with the code. If you give me all the necessary info maybe I can help and familiarize with NSIS. I'm pretty experienced under Windows, but never get in touch wit

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-20 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 21.12.2010 um 00:48 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > hi, > > time to think about beta3. > there is already a couple of things which need to be released > and tested so we should start freezing at certain time. > > are there some particular issues you want to push in trunk > before next beta? As you k

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
Joost Verburg wrote: > I still believe the best way forward is to start with the CMake build tools > and the new libraries I've recently ported to Visual C++ i also think this is the best approach in long term. > The question is whether this is feasible for 2.0. Perhaps I could start > with bu

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-20 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Op 21-12-2010 2:27, Joost Verburg schreef: On 12/20/2010 7:40 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: although all the advantages above look like very good step forward i'm afraid there is nobody around who is going to write new NSIS code (i suppose Uwe is not going to leave his code for some unfinished stuff

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-20 Thread Joost Verburg
On 12/20/2010 7:40 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: although all the advantages above look like very good step forward i'm afraid there is nobody around who is going to write new NSIS code (i suppose Uwe is not going to leave his code for some unfinished stuff he is not familiar with.) That's why I think

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
Joost Verburg wrote: > Unfortunately my current job keeps me extremely busy so I'm not sure when > I'll have time to work on this. I will try to start working on some although all the advantages above look like very good step forward i'm afraid there is nobody around who is going to write new NS

Re: Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-20 Thread Joost Verburg
On 12/20/2010 6:48 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: - windows installers. Joost, are there some advances in the announced 'joint' installer, so we no more proceed with the doublet official/alternative? or do we continue with the current 1.6 model? any way we should start to offer *some* officia

Towards beta3 and beyond

2010-12-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
hi, time to think about beta3. there is already a couple of things which need to be released and tested so we should start freezing at certain time. are there some particular issues you want to push in trunk before next beta? we reduced from 3 pages of bugs with 2.0 milestone to nearly one pag