Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I'm surely not a real developer as you are but always did my best to > improve LyX under Windows. So telling me I should more concentrate on LyX > that I currently do frustrates me a bit.
IMO you are a real developer. Everybody puts his own emphasis as he likes, and if that is not "hardcore LyX programming" but the documentation or the installer this does not make it less useful. > And while we are discussing the installer question; > It makes me sick that nobody see the time that is needed for maintaining > the installer and the Windows stuff. You may have got the impression, but it is not true. While I share many of the concerns I am also aware that you put a lot of effort into the installer, and that it took you a lot of time, and I am sure that others see that, too. Anybody who does not see this should have a look at bugzilla and the users list please. Because maintaining the installer is so much work we can really not afford to have two completely independant ones. Fortunately many of the past issues with your installer have been resolved now. For the future I suggest the following: - We have only one installer code base that is maintained in svn. If Joost does not reappear this will be Uwe's code. If Joost does reappear it is hopefully possible for Uwe and Joost to come to an agreement what to use and how to code so that both can work on it. - There will be a minimal installer that does only install LyX itself and nothing else for people who have everything else already and maybe still use a modem. The size of this should be around 9 MB. - Other installers that include more stuff or can dowenload it from the net will be made by Uwe (from the same source code) as he sees the need. - Modifications to LyX itself should only be made if there is a very good reason. If such modifications are made the installer should be named in such a way that it is clear that it is a modified version. The preferred way to include modifications requested or contributed by users is to discuss them on the list and put them in svn afterwards. Georg
