Re: [patches 13x, 14x] wrappers for ShGetFolderPath, GetLongPathName
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:01:10PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:51:00PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> >> Just for completeness, here are patches that I believe will allow
> >> tex2lyx to run successfully on Win95 and Win98 and will allow both LyX
> >> 1.3.x and LyX 1.4.x to be used as a conversion filter on such machines.
> >> (It's likely that Qt/WinFree will die a horrible death though...)
>
> > Given that Qt 4 is (also) GPL'ed on Win this seems quite certain.
>
> Right, but we'll need to patch our qt frontend source code to use Qt4, no?
'patch' would be a proper British understatement.
'rework' would be closer in a continental climate.
> (Ie, that won't happen until the LyX 1.5 cycle.)
Sure.
> And, anyway, I actually meant that running an executable compiled against
> Qt/WinFree will die a horrible death today on Win98. Apparently.
>
> > Btw, some good news on the Qt front: it starts getting usable
> > performance-wise with 4.0.1
> > (Don't tell the Trolls, though...)
>
> Yes, I've been keeping half an eye on your posts to the qt-devel list.
The nice thing is that the respond positively to pushing...
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