I believe there was a conclusion to avoid that warning of using LyX with
XForms 0.89, it is used by users and by the developers and no harm is
known to happen from using 0.89
I myself use 0.89 on Debian sid and see no problems with that.
Anything that says otherwise in the docs or in code should probably be
changed.
A bug list is available on sourceforge in the project lyx-bugs,
basically we use sf as our bug archival system.
* Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010717 17:19]:
> Hello,
>
> [Please let me know if this should have gone to lyx-devel instead.]
>
> There's some discussion on a Debian mailing list (debian-french)
> whether the Lyx package should be built against XForms 0.88 or
> 0.89. See also http://bugs.debian.org/105486
>
> I couldn't find anything obvious on the lyx web page, but found
> this in lyx-1.1.6fix2.tar.gz's README file:
>
> : What do I need to compile LyX from the source distribution?
> :
> : 2. The Xforms library version 0.88 (recommended) or 0.89.
> :
> : Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.
>
> The INSTALL file says:
>
> : As of LyX version 1.1.5, you will need to have Xforms library and header
> : version 0.88 or 0.89. Version 0.88 is a stable release and the
> : recommended version.
>
> Now, libforms0.89 might be the development version, but 0.88 is
> _quite_ old (29-05-1999 pour i386, 12-05-1999 for m68k), is
> receiving _no_ bug fixes, and has only glibc2.0 releases for sparc
> and m68k.
>
> I'm pretty sure 0.89 was recommended for Lyx about 18 months ago.
> Did the Lyx source code change to fit 0.88 better since then?
>
> What should Debian do? (also considering the lack of XForms 0.88
> for certain arches) Are there known problems using 0.89?
> (Sorry, I couldn't find a bug list on the lyx web site)
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Peter Galbraith, the Debian package maintainer for XForms.
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