Am 04.04.2019 um 01:53 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
You said I have to *compile* LyX on Windows. Of course I *install* LyX under Windows to test it.
This is fine since you test if the compiled version works.
I agree, of course, that it would be better if the person responsible for the Windows installer was a Windows user. But, at the moment, we don't have anyone who is (i) willing to take that on and (ii) willing to abide by decisions of the LyX team.
The main problem is that the rules don't follow the experience the LyX Windows community collected over many years. Your decision not to include a TeX distribution to the installer did not improve the situation but worse it. Remember that MiKTeX was once included to the installer because we needed a method to setup and repair broken TeX distribution settings. That users broke their MiKTeX or TeXLive happened often and I did not have the time to explain the same things how to repair/use correct settings again and again. (You can look in the mailing list archives how many mails I wrote over the years addressing these issues.) Thus I developed together with the MiKTeX maintainer an API that the installer could set up everything. Moreover it enabled to repair broken systems just by installing LyX again. So kicking this out is a nightmare for a new potential maintainer because he is in the state I was before I added MiKTeX to the installer. And I never said MiKTeX is the greatest TeX distro. It is definitely not and recently it was quite buggy but it provides methods to set it up at install time. However, please sign your installer using Microsoft's signtool. This is important because Microsoft made his SmartScreen filter recently more aggressive. This filter is not very smart and it sucks. Nevertheless, we have to accept that it currently tells users that installing LyX could be harmful and one has to explicitly say "install it anyway" to get LyX installed. One reason is that executables should have a digital signature. With a signature SmartScreen will shout anyway but "learn" much faster that LyX is not dangerous. You can use the self-signature file I set up for LyX: https://github.com/donovaly/LyXWinInstaller/blob/master/LyXorg.pfx regards Uwe
