lyx2lyx/* small woes

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 09:05:34PM +0100, José Matos wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-08-19 at 12:40 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 05:05:36PM +0100, José Matos wrote:
> > 
> > The changes look simple so I would say go ahead for master branch.
> > There is still no freeze for it anyway.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> Could you do it, please?

Yes, in master at 65f8c080.

> The ssh server from our server is old and I am unable to connect even
> by enabling legacy mode. I tried this several times in the last two
> years with the help of Riki and I have never succeeded.
> 
> More and more other services have been increasing the requirements for
> security and so the LyX server is the only where I have problems. :-(

Ah I forgot about that. Sorry for the annoyance.

> On a related note to this issue:
> 
> 1) There is another batch of easy fixes that deal with the removal of
> variables that are defined but never used. There are several examples
> like this on the lyx2lyx directory.

I guess the hard part is figuring out whether they are not used because
of a typo?
 
> 2) FWIW at some point, after the release of 2.4, I would like to
> modernize the python code in order to remove the compatibility with
> python 2.
> 
> That compatibility is not only moot as it is a nuisance. One of the
> easiest examples is the need that we have now to prefix all text
> strings with u (for unicode).
> 
> The same applies to use typing to annotate functions and take advantage
> of static analysers to ensure the correctness of code.
> 
> The questions is to decide what is the best timing for this operation.
> Could it be after 2.4.1 release?

I don't have a feeling for which is best.

Scott
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