Sven Schreiber wrote: >> LyX 1.4 will support this. > > Ok, I will restrain myself and _not_ ask when this will be released -- I > understand it has to be ready etc. etc. > > But what about regular small bugfixes, the last version was released > more than half a year ago, surely at least some of the quirks we > lyx-users are working around (more or less often) have been fixed by now?
We're slowly putting together LyX 1.3.6. It will of course contain many little bug fixes. You can see the current list of such changes here: http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/Attic/status.13x?rev=1.1.2.244&only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_X&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/bpcfh However, LyX 1.3.6 will actually be a *big* patch on LyX 1.3.5 because I decided to merge Ruurd's LyX/Win port into the official sources and Jean-Marc agreed to let me do so to the LyX 1.3.x code base. (Ruurd's port was based on the official LyX 1.3.x code.) This merger hasn't just been a cut-and-paste job. Instead, I've tried to "do the right thing" with each piece of changed code. I'd like to think that LyX/Unix and LyX/Mac users won't be affected at all by this work because much of the new code is compiled only under Windows, however, only time will tell. So, if you want someone to blame for the slow release of LyX 1.3.6, then blame me :) Of course, I'll have a vast army of LyX/Win users to protect me because they'll find LyX/Win 1.3.6 is much better than anything they've had before. I hope. > I have been loosely following the devel-list to get a clue on this, but > frankly don't understand the development process enough to make sense of > what the buzzing there means in terms of new versions. LyX 1.4.x is in feature freeze. If you listen to most everybody else on that list other than me, you'll find that they're all busy fixing bugs in the LyX 1.4.x code base. Helge Hafting has made it over from the user-side and is busy supplying us with bug reports of things that go wrong with LyX 1.4.x. That's a great way for you or anybody else to help too. Of course, this is not bug-free code, so please back up your files first. It does seem to be pretty stable however. > Thanks of course for all the effort that is being put into lyx, it's > just that regular updates would somehow make me feel more ... <thinks > about how to put it> ... convinced that choosing lyx was the right > decision. I hope this info doesn't dissuade you. > cheers, > sven -- Angus
