Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Edwin" == Leuven, E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Edwin> and, is prepared to take up the work of keeping it up-to-date

Edwin> ...

Edwin> (remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch)

You can revert that and say that those who want to get rid of qt3
because they will feel more comfortable will be morally engaged to do
whatever is needed to make lyx run and be packaged on all the
not-so-old linux distribs. This means _good_ packaging of binaries (we
provide binaries in a very uncoordinated way currently),

Many users are contributing packages right?

and some
organization to make sure that people will just have to download and
install a couple of package.

I am repeating myself but:

If a user use a platform that does not support Qt4, he has 4 choices:
- change platform: we can provide a list of good platform WRT Qt4
- look for an unsupported Qt4 package: I remember Georg giving a link for this info.
- stay with LyX-1.4.X
- download a LyX package bundled with the Qt4 library: doesn't seem too hard to do as a first glance; this is what is done for Windows (and Mac?).

Conclusion: there is no such thing as a "distribution" nightmare. Things are simple from my point of view. Developers should care primarily about development. Aren't you the one who said that he doesn't base his development choices on politics ;-)


Other than that, I am not going to fight for qt3 (especially knowing I
will not have to care _at_all_ about the above problems :).

Hurra!

So who is left?

The only thing that scares me is what is the _next_ thing that will be
on the chopping block. Ispell and gtk are a no-brainer; but then? When
heads begin to roll, the people demands more blood ;-)

pspell, iconv and unicode.[Ch] ;-)

More seriously, if you are willing (with Georg) to keep up with any qt4 development for qt3, I am fine with it. I am just saying that, if a change is not trivial, I will just do the qt4 part and forget about the rest.

Abdel.

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