Am 12.04.2010 um 04:30 schrieb BH: > Stephen Witt has been doing some great things for LyX/Mac. Given that > I have not had time or expertise to really advance LyX/Mac, and given > his abilities and enthusiasm, I have asked him if he would like to > take over as LyX/Mac maintainer. He has agreed.
Bennett, I'd like to thank you for you work as LyX/Mac Maintainer. My contributions are relative small and were not possible without the work from others before. > For now, at least, the plan is for Stephen to take over the > LyX/Mac-2.0.0 release but leave at least the 1.6.6 release to me. > (We'll see what happens for 1.6.7.) > > I've given Stephen the XCode source for LyX-installer.app. As I've > indicated before, I think we ought to do away with a separate > installer in favor of a script that can get run when LyX is launched. > But I'll leave the decision of what to do with it up to Stephen. (If > the installer persists, though, it should go into the svn repository.) > > As I told Stephen, I'll still be around on the devel and users list, > still compiling recent trunk and branch, still pestering people to fix > Mac and other bugs, etc. And, of course, I'll still be using and > benefiting from LyX itself, without which I'd now find it very hard to > do any serious work. Thank you again for staying with the lists and your help to improve LyX. Currently I'm doing some minor improvements on the build script. On my todo list -- if possible before the 2.0.0 release -- are * Tiger support again (I believe I know what to do here) * Using the Qt-Frameworks as dynamic libraries * Review of the installer issues * Dictionaries and thesaurus for the spellchecker integration and extensibility Stephan
