DA>> Well, that's hardly the fault of the lyx developers - you can't DA>> expect them to maintain packages for different versions of the DA>> same distro. This is the distro's job. Althouh it'd be nice to
Well, if we talk the "I don't owe you nothing" way, definitely yes. But if we talk about getting a tool that is usable as Office replacement, I don't see how maintaining package for just one (or handful of) pet distro can help that. I can understand that if LyX developers don't care - they just are working on their project and if someone has problem with that he can go and make his own LyX better. That's fine by me - but this is certainly not a replacement for Office. To be replacement for Office one has to obtain a different mindset - thinking of little users first. That's much less fun, so I have no any blame on LyX guys. I just conclude LyX is not fit for a thing you say it is fit. That's certainly not their problem - that's my problem. And I am sorry that I have this problem - still after years I have been told that I won't have it very soon now... DA>> On a tangent, this whole idea seems wrong to me. Many versions DA>> of the same distro that require separate packages to be DA>> maintained for each, and upgrading to a new version of the DA>> distro is a big bother (and might cost you access to packages Well, they could just have generic Linux binary. After all, all Linuxes running now are compatible with plain old glibc2. Why Mozilla can do this and LyX can not? Or they could go and make their code compiling in older gcc's. That's not that hard - believe me or not, people can do even greater projects without two-level templates. But I understad I'm preaching to the choir, sorry for that. DA>> range of releases, or both. If they don't, that's a major DA>> obstacle for Joe User. That's what I am telling you. So far developers didn't go too far towards little Joe. I'm hearing a lot of talk for last 5 years about this, but the frustrating thing is that talk does not turn into deeds. Or, more precisely, it does, but the conversion rate is still way below what I (and, more important, Joe - because I can, with certain amount of frustration, do without it, he can not) would like. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
