On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 21:30, Georg Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 21.10.25 um 22:31 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > > On 10/20/25 1:56 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > >> > >> OK. What is the process to create the announcement text? I noticed > >> that the ANNOUNCE file is still for 2.4.4, and status.24x is up to > >> date, but does not contain the top most part of ANNOUNCE (where the > >> python compatibility change should go IMHO). > >> > >> Riki, do you want me to draft something, or are you going to take care? > > > > I usually do that when preparing the release, but if you want to write > > something now about this particular issue, that'll give me a head start. > > It turned out that this is more complex than expected. I drafted a text > (partially stolen from the last 2.3.x release), and then I realized that > we have checks for the minimum python version. I updated these as well. > > What I do not know is whether building with MSVC on windows does still > work. Is lyx-windows-deps-msvc2019_64.zip still relevant? This archive > does still contain python 2.7. Who is responsible for that? The archive still works "like a charm", with some caveats: CMake asks for some Python 3.8+ and Perl, on top of Qt. I don't know where LyX would pull pdfview, for instance, if not from that archive.
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