On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/16/2010 10:24 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 16.09.2010 um 15:32 schrieb Pavel Sanda: >> >>> >>> * rc2rc conversion scripts for converting older preferences into new >>> ones. Jose promised to come with something. >>> >> >> These I would rate as show-stopper, almost. (I don't want to say that only >> Jose is responsible for that :-)) >> Bennett wrote a apple-script to do that. I had not enough time to tell how >> good it is. >> But I would like much more a generic solution for all platforms.
Credit where it's due: Angus Leeming and Ronald Florence did the real work with a shell script. I just wrote the (horrid, embarrassing, ...) AppleScript wrapper around it to create a GUI and allow for user interaction. > This cannot be that hard. If people really, really want it, I guess I could > do it. The real question is what the differences are between the 1.6 and 2.0 > configuration files that would need accounting for. > > It's just the preferences file that needs updating, yes? The script also installs LyX specific TeX files in an appropriate local directory. It could do other things like automatically update template files from old to new formats. I'm attaching a version of it here in case you want to look. It should be understandable (aside from the convoluted logic of it) even without knowing anything about AppleScript. BH
LyX-installer.applescript
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