Dear LyXers,
there is a new Windows installer available that provides support for
Windows Vista:
http://ftp.lyx.de/LyX%202.2.0/LyX-220-Installer-Vista-3.exe
Dima kindly prepared the binary from the 2.2.0 tarball, I checked it
against viruses and malware using commercial antivirus software, I
created the installer with it and Dima tested that everything works fine
on Vista.
Richard, could you please put it on ftp.lyx.org? Could you please also
write a news message that we now have a Vista installer but that this
installer should not be used for other Windows versions than Vista.
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There is a discussion about this topic in the bug tracker that I cannot
understand. Scott and Richard are concerned that Dima'S build contains
malware. This is not fair. Dima invested some spare time to fiddle
around with Qt to prepare a Vista build and to test it. To presume that
a new contributor is not trustworthy is not the way we should welcome
new people!
I checked Dima's build wit the anti-virus software at work (the
installer only contains the lyx.exe and tex2lyx.exe from Dima, all other
LyX files are identic with the other installers I released for 2.2.0.
However, in general, if we don't trust new people investing their spare
time, we will be lost. To dramatize: Some of you have never seen me,
nobody knows my build system and could cross-check if I don't add
spyware to the Win installers. So you have to trust me too.
Thus please keep use welcome new people and encouraging to join the LyX
developer team. LyX need manpower and I am happy about every new
developer. We also need people developing on Windows.
many thanks and regards
Uwe
