>>Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:03:15 +0200
>>From: Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[email protected]"
>><[email protected]>
>>Subject: Re: problème avec lyx
>>
>>Jean-Pierre Chretien schrieb:
>>
>>> I thought it came with ProTeXt ? If the LyX installer downloads it on the
>>> fly, it's clear
>>> that it may take some time.
>>
>>The installer starts LyX's configuration script that invokes a check for
>>LaTeX-packages. If a package isn't found MiKTeX (proTeXt) will download
>>and install it if possible (these MiKTeX settings are adjusted by the
>>installer). The installer sets MiKTeX's download package repository to
>>sunsite.dk to assure that the packages are the most actual ones as
>>sunsite.de is MiKTeX's primary CTAN package repository.
OK, but I checked the ProTeXt bundle:
->unzip -l protext.exe|grep pgf
[...]
0 10-14-05 12:07 MiKTeX/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/
61927 07-18-05 21:00 MiKTeX/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/pgf.sty
[...]
1440 07-18-05 21:06 MiKTeX/texmf/tpm/packages/pgf.tpm
so there is no need to load it.
>>
>>> In fact, I build what I call a LyXWin CD (mostly for repetitive install or
>>> install
>>> on machines with low bitrate connexion) which holds proTeXt, your installer,
>>> a few aspell dictionaries, and local classes and layouts.
>>
>>Please note that the license "AFPL" that is used by ghostscript and
>>GSview doesn't allow this unless you ask the authors for a permission.
>>Now that someone (you) wanted to create a LyX CD, I'll provide a special
>>installer version that comes with a GPLed Ghostscript and without GSview.
>>(I hope I can publish a new installer version together with the brand
>>new MiKTeX 2.5 in the next week.)
I don't build a LyXWin CD iso image to sell it, just to ease installation
of LyX among colleagues of my institution, so I don't see restrictions on this
on gs/gsview in the AFPL license. The software can be redistributed if there
is no charge.
Basically the jigdo distribution is a download which
reconstructs the iso image on the client computer.
In fact, AFPL gs and gsview *are* in the protext bundle:
->unzip -l protext.exe | grep -i gsv
0 10-14-05 12:29 gsv/
9713152 12-02-04 15:40 gsv/gs815w32.exe
1518080 10-14-05 12:19 gsv/gsv47w32.exe
but the gs version is quite outdated.
Now I see that the current version numbers of AFPL and GPL ghostscripts are the
same (8.54).
If that means that they have achieved the same level of maturity, it would be
of course
advisable to replace AFPL by GPL to have an homogeneous installation from the
licensing
point of view.
If it seems a good idea to provide a jigdo iso CD distribution (e.g. in the
wiki)
of the installers, I can help of course.
Regards
--
Jean-Pierre
