Michael Gerz schrieb:
I think the major problem with your installer (from its very beginning)
was that you changed LyX's behaviour.
OK, you said that your "customers" asked for these changes and it is
your right to modify LyX (no doubt).
However, for an "official LyX installer" this is inacceptable. The
lyx-devel discussions seem to indicate that others share my concern.
You miss that from last week on there are no longer changes to the official sources. I implemented
all missing bits and removed the rest that doesn't found a majority.
Moreover, your installer (small
edition) is > 20 MB whereas Joost's version comprises about 8 MB. Some
people (like me) do not want to download a large bunch of tools with
every LyX update.
The aim is that you also have a ready to work installation with the installer, therefore all
installer versions come with all needed files from
SVN lyx-devel\lib
and they are 19.6 MB.
Uwe, why are Joost's sources so uncomprehensible? IIRC he is one of the
NSIS programmers which means that he has some experience with the
development of installers.
Look at the code. I'm not stupid, I can understand other installer codes. I rewrote for example last
week JabRef's installer.
I haven't said that Joost's code is bad or whatever, I only don't understand it. He do so many
things that I also do in completely different ways.
I'm tired of this discussion as we had is so often.
I maintain the installer as best as I can to fix bugs as soon as possible, that's why I would like
to have it in SVN. To maintain, it's of course easier to use self-written and therefore well
understood code.
Btw. it is possible to use Lyx without admin permissions, unrar the file LyXWinInstallerPackage.rar
that I deliver with every stable release ad double click on the lyx.exe - that's it. The of course
the file extensions aren't registered etc. but that's the price.
Uwe
