Future of LyX/Windows installers

2006-10-10 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Maybe my email sound a bit grumpy but what are you talking about? I am working together with you to improve the installer (...) I really appreciate your help. Here I'm talking about having one official Windows installer instead of both official and unofficial versions. We'v

Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I've seen you on the NSIS-lists and know that you'll build us a perfect installer. I now understand what you want to achieve. A thing that is missing in my installer is indeed a method to update only LyX or only a third party program when there's a problem with it. Exactly wh

Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg wrote: Because I already wrote lots of NSIS-based Windows installers, it is possible for me to provide you all with hack-free scripts that make everything a lot easier. If we now decide to go on with this integrated solution, we can really take LyX/Win to the next level. I've s

Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello Uwe, Just my two cents on that issue: Your installer helped me convinced some people to use LyX so I think that everybody agrees that it is very good. I can only suggest that you wait until Joost publish his new installer; maybe he have very good reasons to rewrite it instead of patchin

Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I'm advertising my installer solution here not only because of the installer itself, it costs more time to get the installer working with the third party programs. The actual MiKTeX version was build for my installer and some new features are in now to be able to configure MiK

Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng wrote: The problems are with licenses, and size of installers, and admin right. The only complaint I received was the admin right problem. I asked several times about the licence issues and they are correct now - means there is no license issue at the moment. And about the size, my s

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-08 Thread mike.ressler
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Compare also with the natbib work that lives on a branch: I don't think > Angus has gotten much feedback on that. This in turns results in less > entuisiasm from the developer, and there is a real fear that the work will > never be merged. This

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-06 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 05-Jun-2001 Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > Obviously 1) and 3) are the most fun, so we'll for sure do some of that. > > However, we also know that 2) is vital for the project to be succesful, > > so we will do that also. But we can only do that

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Michael Schmitt
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > It is very positive that you intend to have a bug fix session at the next > > developers meeting. However, there is no need to wait until then! I have > > set up a list of outstanding bugs and you are free to fix as many as you > > like :-) Isn't th

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Is this list in the lyxbugs project at SourceForge? I don't know which bug-tracker is the "official" one. > I think the SourceForge bugtracker should get more exposure and more > use. In particular, we should encourage everyone to file new bugs they

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
> It is very positive that you intend to have a bug fix session at the next > developers meeting. However, there is no need to wait until then! I have > set up a list of outstanding bugs and you are free to fix as many as you > like :-) Isn't that a nice thought: You fix them now and will drink be

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jun-2001 Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: >> have you ever tried the english ale, it's not so cold ... :-) > > Cooper vintage ale and Hans vintage ale in Australia are meant to be > served a tad warmer than usaul beer, ~ 8 degree IIRC. They should be > served in a stemware too. The Hans one is pa

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Herbert Voss say > > My only constraint is to avoid mixing the two in the same glass: the > > beer is a bit too cold to blend well with the wine. > > have you ever tried the english ale, it's not so cold ... :-) Cooper vintage ale and Hans vintage ale in Australia are

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Monday 04 June 2001 16:27, Herbert Voss wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> Herbert, the one who drinks wine ... > > > > Juergen> Jean-Marc too if I remember, but he drinks beer to (if forced > > Juergen> #:O) >

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Herbert Voss
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Herbert, the one who drinks wine ... > > Juergen> Jean-Marc too if I remember, but he drinks beer to (if forced > Juergen> #:O) > > My only constraint is to avoid mixing the two in the same glas

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:39:40PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > It has taken a bit too long... but apart from the mathed changes we > are basically there. I still think that there is still some work is needed on new insets. Especially: 1. Spellchecking/Search-replace 2. Speed! Try putting

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Herbert, the one who drinks wine ... Juergen> Jean-Marc too if I remember, but he drinks beer to (if forced Juergen> #:O) My only constraint is to avoid mixing the two in the same glass: the beer is a bit too cold to blend well wit

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Michael Schmitt
Hi, First, I wouldn't say that LyX is unstable in general! The major problem with 1.1.6 concerns tables. Of course, I wouldn't blame you for leaving bugs in a final release but I assume they have been known before shipping as they were quite obvious. Before you are going to strangle me, I would l

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jun-2001 Garst R. Reese wrote: >> Given that I probably don't have the place for a lot more people (some more >> is ok ;), the idea is VERY good. What we could do during the meeting is commit >> bugfixes very fast so that everybody listening should be able to update their >> cvs-source and

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jun-2001 Herbert Voss wrote: > sounds like an endless loop, if it is an algorithm. > but too much beer is a natural break function, > for someone ... :-) You said it for SOMEONE ;) > Herbert, the one who drinks wine ... Jean-Marc too if I remember, but he drinks beer to (if forced #:O)

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Garst R. Reese
Juergen Vigna wrote: > Given that I probably don't have the place for a lot more people (some more > is ok ;), the idea is VERY good. What we could do during the meeting is commit > bugfixes very fast so that everybody listening should be able to update their > cvs-source and test at home and fil

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Herbert Voss
On 5 Jun 2001, Lars Gullik [iso-8859-1] Bjønnes wrote: > | 1) Drink beer > | 2) Fix bugs > | 3) Build new features > > 4) Drink more beer. sounds like an endless loop, if it is an algorithm. but too much beer is a natural break function, for someone ... :-) Herbert, the one who drinks wine ...

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > However, as we approach the 2nd half of 2001, one might ask whether | > there is an end in site, a point at which 1.1.6 will be intended as a | > release worthy to succeed 1.1.5fix in all r

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 05-Jun-2001 Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Obviously 1) and 3) are the most fun, so we'll for sure do some of that. > However, we also know that 2) is vital for the project to be succesful, > so we will do that also. But we can only do that if we have the bug > reports! So help us out with

Re: future of LyX

2001-06-05 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, as we approach the 2nd half of 2001, one might ask whether > there is an end in site, a point at which 1.1.6 will be intended as a > release worthy to succeed 1.1.5fix in all respects? Has there been > any loss of momentum? Is it possible t

future of LyX

2001-06-04 Thread larry
The LyX community has a lot to be proud about. I, for one, was particularly impressed by the honest self-criticism shown by the movement back to 1.0.4 (if I recall correctly) from a development version that had gone down too ambitious a path, in favor of incremental improvements. That took a l