On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > > Redhat 7.1 should come with LyX somewhere on the CDs.
> >
> > not any more, they dropped xforms from the powertools CD due to its
> > non-free status.
>
> If I did not already consider them stupid for shipping gcc "2.96", I would
> start doing so now... *sigh*
Gee you've been very easy on them. Why wait so long to come to this
decision? That is, why did it take gcc-2.96 to convince you?
> That is bad news if one of the major distros are not shipping LyX anymore.
> Maybe that's the reason why so many people still uses KLyX...
RH dropped LyX from powertools after they made a complete FU of powertools
5 when they included LyX linked against 0.86 and shipped 0.81 on the cd.
At the time we had also dropped support for 0.81 so even if you tried
rebuilding from srpms you still couldn't get it working. Perhaps they
didn't like our GUII idea or the KLyX port which was being rumoured (since
everyone had said gtk wouldn't win outright).
So the fact that they dropped xforms most likely means that they dropped
the one remaining xforms package they had offered on powertools which was
a ppp dialer of some description.
I'm sure you will also recall that most powertools cds since pt5 have also
been shipped with an xforms that was linked aginst the wrong library for
their distro.
Then after all this they shipped gcc-2.96. If you look at the
history you'd be a generous person to say it wasn't inevitable.
Allan. (ARRae) When's Friday?
P.S. FWIW, SuSE, Mandrake and Debian all ship working LyX versions. You
don't have to pay extra for a powertools cd to get it or the main
library it depends on either.
