On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:02:17 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 12/10/15 18:19, Steve Litt a écrit : > >> What's so special about void linux? > > > > Minimal, solid, modular, adaptable, DIY friendly. Matter of fact, > > the only software that didn't run on it was LyX. > > A bit too minimal, then. Complain to them :) > > JMarc > Thanks JMarc, I'm not going to complain to Void. LyX is the only piece of software didn't work on Void, but Void is not the only environment I've had trouble with LyX. I've had trouble compiling LyX on most of my upgrades. Ever since the end of xforms, you've needed just the right Qt4 version combination. I'm not going to complain to them over one single app, when they give me a clean, fast, simple, always-works distro. For now, I'm running LyX in a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Qemu VM. Soon it will be a Docker container. In the long run, I'll need to finish the Stylz project I started, which will replace both LyX and Sigil and provide write once, publish everywhere. By the way, if LyX native format ever becomes a true, valid and well-formed XML, then all LaTeX dependency can be moved to a separate executable, valid, non-kludge eBook conversion becomes possible, LyX will be write-once;deploy-everywhere, and LyX will be relevant well into the future. SteveT
