On Monday 06 June 2005 14:38, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > Find it at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136.exe > > Hi Angus, > > first many thanks for your work. I tested it and have the following > annotations: > > - Your installer asks for several programs. If one of these are not > present, the installer opens the download/install webpage of the > programs but jumps to the next step without waiting until the > missing program is installed.
Yes. But once you've grabbed everything it asks you to restart the LyX installer so that it can find your newly installed packages. > - Is it really necessary to install msys, perl and phthon fully? No. You need Perl only if you're going to use reLyX. I tried to explain that in the accompanying commentary. > Its download size is huge (23 MB for Perl + Python) for modem/ISDN > users. Ruurd only used the executables perl.exe, python.exe and > sh.exe. Is it possible to include them to the installer package? Just thinking out loud... Perhaps: [x] Download the official Python distribution [ ] Install a stripped-down and maybe "good enough" Python.exe But this will involve me in a lot more work with NSIS getting to grips with optional installation of components. I'm running out of LyX-time. I'm also running out of NSIS-enthusiasm. > Because it would ease the installation a lot. > > - While LyX reconfigures, it doesn't recognize acrobat: > > +checking for "acrobat"... no > > altough it is installed on my system. The reason is that the > acrobat.exe istn't in the PATH but in the registry (as most of Win > programs) under > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Applications\ > > Is it possible to search the registry for this entry? Acroread > under Win is stored in the same registry path. I could, but where do I stop? Acroread certainly isn't required to get LyX running and we already have 6 download pages and a complaint that we're downloading too much stuff... It's the sort of thing that really belongs in the configure script (which needs to be rewritten in some other language if it is to understand the registry...) > - I installed LyX with admin permissions and it appeared with > german menus like I wanted. But when I change to a user account it > appeared with english menus. To get german ones for the user > account I had to create a new environment variable named "LANG" > with the value "de_DE" as described at Ruurds LyX-webpage. Is it > possible to add this variable automatically for every user account? It may be possible, but I don't know how... > - At last a crash report of your LyX 1.3.6CVS version: > Go to Edit -> Preferences, choose "Paths" and press one of the > "Browse" buttons for the working directories. Result CRASH: Thank you. I see it on linux too. > That's all for the moment. > > thanks for the installer again and regards > Uwe > > p.s. Please CC all replies to my email adress as I'm not on the > lyx-devel list. Angus
