Uwe Stöhr wrote:
So let me be frank this one time:
Joost took my installer code and modified it on his own without
informing me what and why he has changed things. Then he upload it to
SVN and boom: We had a new official LyX installer!
This was a real shock because I worked well together with Angus to make
one new installer this time.
Of course there were some points where my installer wasn't acceptable,
for example the whole code was in one singe installer file. I changed
this accordingly after I first tested out Joost's installer but I was of
course very displeased by the way the installer thing was handled.
Uwe, I remember that Joost apologized at the time and wanted to get you
on the boat. I don't have any knowledge of this NSIS language (which
looks horrible at first glance) but he's an expert in it. IMHO you
should leverage that knowledge for the benefit of everyone.
Then I spend lot of time to discuss things with Joost to include it to
his installer. This a bit strange that I have to fight for things to be
included to Joost's installer altough they have been in the installer
for a long time.
I can understand the feeling (and I do react like that myself sometimes)
but this is not a question of who is asking and who has done the work at
the first place.
I also wasn't willing to be any longer the only one giving support for
the installer. Fixing the third party issues costed so much time.
This is a totally separate issue from the installer source code. I agree
with you that the bundle package _is_ a good thing for many users (most
users I would say) but I also think that you can use the same code base
to create the bundle package.
Fortunately their developers helped me a lot and also build in special
stuff for our needs so I don't want to fight for using this anymore.
After Joost wasn't reachable for a longer time and bugs couldn't be
fixed some users convinced me to put my stuff to SVN. I see now that
this was a bad idea, sorry again.
Cheer up man, we don't need this kind of competition :-)
Besides, it was just Bo's opinion. IMHO you have the right to use the
SVN facilities and I guess my opinion count as much as Bo's ;-). That
being said, I repeat myself but it would be better to have a single
source code base for all installer... still IMHO.
Abdel.
