Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-02-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> No screams of protest heard so I'm sending this off in about an Allan> hour -- I should have cleaned it up and got the various email Allan> addresses by then. Allan> So scream now before it's too late It looks good, Allan. Go for

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-02-16 Thread Allan Rae
No screams of protest heard so I'm sending this off in about an hour -- I should have cleaned it up and got the various email addresses by then. So scream now before it's too late Allan.

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
[hopefully the final draft... I would like to get this to lwn this week] On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > NOT FOR RELEASE > > DO NOT REMOVE THE ABOVE LINE > > > > Target audience: freshmeat, linuxdev.net, slashdot, icewalkers, c.o.l.a. > > >

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Why don't we - as a kind of publicity gag and to attract more users and > developers - prepare some blurb/project in this field and claim > compliance? I surely do not want to claim anything I can't deliver. Even as a 'kind of publicity gag'. Andre' -- André Pönitz .

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hey, I've just found the most simple and most radical solution: Compile | with | | cxx -ansi -pedantic -terroristic -D__ULTRA_STRICT_ANSI__ | -D_KALASHNIKOW | | and let the compiler shoot everybody who introduces a non-standard | function. Mmm, li

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> The problem seems to be that to compile system specifics with | Lars> C++ you have to include the C headers... not a very good | Lars> solution. | | How far can we go wit

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | separate library. Rethinking this, I would even propose: | | Put all low-level stuff into a separate opaque C library ! A C lib is not needed, but we might need a C++ lib that does this. I have moved a couple of "UNIX" functions out of the lyx

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> The problem seems to be that to compile system specifics with Lars> C++ you have to include the C headers... not a very good Lars> solution. How far can we go with C++ only stuff? Is it possible to do signals for example in pu

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-14 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > Hey, I've just found the most simple and most radical solution: Compile > with > > cxx -ansi -pedantic -terroristic -D__ULTRA_STRICT_ANSI__ > -D_KALASHNIKOW > > and let the compiler shoot everybody who introduces a non-standard > function. > I guess then we won't have a lot developers

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-13 Thread Arnd Hanses
On 13 Jan 2000 17:43:29 +0100, Lars Gullik Bj°nnes wrote: >Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >| > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bj°nnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >| Lars> The problem is not C library functions, but "UNIX" functions >| Lars> declared in C headers. (IMHO a mistak

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-13 Thread Arnd Hanses
On 13 Jan 2000 16:58:30 +0100, Lars Gullik Bj°nnes wrote: >Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >| >| If we want to have CC compile lyx easily, we have to settle the >| question of adding 'usingstd::foo' where foo is a C library function. >| The problem is that cxx does not like th

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> The problem is not C library functions, but "UNIX" functions | Lars> declared in C headers. (IMHO a mistake, but now we have to cary | Lars> the inheritance garbage.) | |

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> The problem is not C library functions, but "UNIX" functions Lars> declared in C headers. (IMHO a mistake, but now we have to cary Lars> the inheritance garbage.) I have to admit that I do not really understand the difference,

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | - the reserve() problem, since the out of memory as reported by Jose' | did not allow to get something under gdb. I have remvoed the reserves from paragraph.C since this is already done in the constructor. I have also added a resize after the

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-13 Thread Arnd Hanses
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:33:40 +1000 (GMT+1000), Allan Rae wrote: > >[ here's my slightly modified version of Martin's PR] >[Don't want to much otherwise we won't have anything new to say for the > 1.2.0 release PR] > >LyX is an advanced open-source document processor running on many Unix >platform

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am very frustrated to see that I do not have much negative stuff to say about your PR 8-] I'll try anyway. >> These changes include: * Use of std::streams (istream, ostream, >> fstream, strstream) * Use of std::string * Use of the Standa

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-12 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > NOT FOR RELEASE > DO NOT REMOVE THE ABOVE LINE > > Target audience: freshmeat, linuxdev.net, slashdot, icewalkers, c.o.l.a. > > > [We need a brief introductory paragraph of what and who LyX and The LyX > Team are. We should be able to pinch that fro

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-12 Thread Allan Rae
On 12 Jan 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Michael" == Michael Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> Hmmm, looks like Lyx 1.1.4 is almost finished. Not yet. > Michael> As you know I have experienced a lot of problems when > Michael> compiling Lyx with Sun CC (which IMHO ar

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Hmmm, looks like Lyx 1.1.4 is almost finished. Michael> As you know I have experienced a lot of problems when Michael> compiling Lyx with Sun CC (which IMHO are no problems of Sun Michael> CC). I also uncovered a lot of runt

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Purify does not nessiccarily detect runtime erros, it more like Lars> constructs to be wary about. Well, the error logs given by Michael have allowed me to find - a mismatched new/free() pair allocation in figinset, which may

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-11 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Michael Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hmmm, | | looks like Lyx 1.1.4 is almost finished. | | As you know I have experienced a lot of problems when compiling Lyx with | Sun CC (which IMHO are no problems of Sun CC). I also uncovered a lot of | runtime errors when running Lyx with Purify

Re: Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-11 Thread Michael Schmitt
Hmmm, looks like Lyx 1.1.4 is almost finished. As you know I have experienced a lot of problems when compiling Lyx with Sun CC (which IMHO are no problems of Sun CC). I also uncovered a lot of runtime errors when running Lyx with Purify (it just takes me a few minutes to find some new bugs). T

Transitional series PR beta

2000-01-10 Thread Allan Rae
NOT FOR RELEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE ABOVE LINE Target audience: freshmeat, linuxdev.net, slashdot, icewalkers, c.o.l.a. [We need a brief introductory paragraph of what and who LyX and The LyX Team are. We should be able to pinch that from our previous PR] In September 1999 the LyX Team deci