On 05/18/2018 11:16 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 05/18/2018 04:32 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >>> I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new >>> installers. The question is how now to proceed. Note that these are >>> questions for 2.3.0 (and probably 2.3.1, since I will turn my attention >>> to that once this issue is resolved). Larger questions about how to >>> proceed with the Windows installer can be deferred to 2.3.2 if not >>> 2.4.0. >>> >>> It's my hope that we can find someone to take over building the >>> installer, etc, before too long. I'm happy to do it for a bit.... >>> >>> So, questions. >>> >>> 1) Should we include any form of the 'update MiKTeX' code, with a dialog >>> asking for permission to perform the update, or should we not do so? >>> >>> 2) Should we try to get wider testing of these new packages by >>> advertising the putatively final version on the users' list before doing >>> an official release? >>> >>> I have no strong opinion about (1), though I don't think it would be too >>> difficult to include such a dialog. I gather that the risk is that >>> updating LyX itself could trigger a partial update (due to packages >>> being installed at compilation time) that will break MiKTeX. As Pavel >>> said, the people this might affect seem to be only folks who did some >>> kind of update between October and January, but who knows. The main >>> issue would be getting translations of the message in the dialog. I >>> guess I could write to the relevant folks and ask for quick responses. >>> There's also Google, if all else fails. I suppose another option would >>> be for me to contact the MiKTeX maintainer and see what they think. >>> >>> Regarding (2), I guess I am a bit nervous about these installers, since >>> I have no idea what I'm doing, and we didn't get THAT much feedback from >>> my previous messages. >>> >>> Riki >> I've run LyX-230-Installer-103.exe. It has installed and from a very >> first glance, LyX is displaying a couple of complex documents >> correctly. The only obvious thing at this stage is that the LyX icon >> (an irregular LyX in large blue type) is missing and a generic windows >> program icon has taken its place (see attached). > I noticed that, but didn't realize what it was. I'll try to figure out > what's wrong.
By the way, do you know how to figure out where Windows is trying to find the icon? I've presumably changed something unknowingly about where it's being put. Riki
