[RFC][PATCH] Change to buffer lookup for given temporary files

[Stephan Witt]

Am 23.02.2020 um 15:29 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.witt at gmx.net>:
> 
> Am 23.02.2020 um 13:50 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>:
>> 
>> Le 23/02/2020 à 11:40, Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
>>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:55:13PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Still, why realPath() returns a short path name in one case and not in the
>>>>> other case remains a mystery.
>>>> 
>>>> Mystery solved. On Windows, our implementation of realPath() works only with
>>>> file names but does not work with directory names. On the other hand,
>>>> QFileInfo::canonicalFilePath() does not resolve junctions (directory
>>>> symlinks).
>>> Dropping support for Windows Xp, the attached patch works for me with
>>> both files and directories. I am going to apply it, as I think it is
>>> not controversial, given that MS dropped support for Win7 these year
>>> (while we still support both WinVista and Win7).
>> 
>> I have no definitive idea about that, but you should update README if you apply it.
>> 
>> Stephan, do we still support MacOS X 10.4, BTW?
> 
> I don’t think so. What do you mean with support? At build time or at runtime?

Ah sorry, I see now. You refer to the README file.

What’s the audience of this file?

Perhaps it’s possible to download a LyX for 10.4 - but is this the
intention of the authors of this list of requirements?

Stephan

> The LyX 2.3 package I’ve created requires 10.10 at least and 64-bit X86 cpu.
> 
> Qt has its own minimum versions. For 5.12 I cannot look it up, ATM.