Am 04.01.2023 um 23:53 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@gmail.com>: > > On 1/4/23 06:53, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 03.01.2023 um 10:36 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net>: >>> Am 03.01.2023 um 10:29 schrieb Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org>: >>>> On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 10:20:22AM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: >>>>> Now I???ve reduced the image sizes to reduce the screen clutter. >>>>> >>>>> Do you think it is ok? >>>> Looks fine to me. >>>> >>>> What might be good to put at the begining some (textual) examples how >>>> missing python >>>> displays itself (can't convert older lyx files, can't reconfigure, can't >>>> load images, etc...) >>>> so users can associate these problems with python missing. >>> Ok, I’ll make it. >>> >>>> The real solutions though is IMHO to detect python presence and issues >>>> warning for installation… >>> Yes, that I’ll try to do - I have some ideas now. >> Hi all, >> >> finally - although late in the game - I came up with a proposal to solve the >> problem with missing python on macOS. >> >> It’s described here: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12523 and in more depth >> here: https://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac >> >> Please see the attached patch. You may wonder why there is no mac specific >> code. I think it’s not needed as the problem isn’t specific to the OS or >> platform. It is very unlikely to happen on Linux systems as most of them has >> package managers and if the dependencies are correct there is no problem >> like that. > > Yes, that seems right. This could happen on other platforms. > > >> Probably the message text of the new Alert box should be reworded. > > It seems fine, though I wonder if we could possibly point people towards a > solution?
I pushed commit bbc2270972cfbb1aa11836498c8a6c73be91f18d with slightly improved message. >> If the solution looks right I’d like to see it in 2.3.8 too. > > Definitely. I'd even be willing to re-release 2.3.7, for Mac at least, with > this patch. A patch for 2.3.x is attached at https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12523 I’ll adjust the wiki when it’s applied. Stephan -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
