In the absence of the official maintainer (Uwe Stöhr) of LyX Alternate Installer for Windows, I've stepped in and created 'unofficial' installer for LyX version 2.0.0rc3.
As I'm not a LyX developer, I'm not really sure about the quality of this installer. It worked for me, though. For now the file is hosted on hotfile. If someone is willing to host this and future versions of 'my' installer, please contact me off the list. The location follows: http://hotfile.com/dl/114106147/50313a2/LyX-2.0.0rc3-AltInstaller.zip.html WARNING!!! ========== THIS INSTALLER CONFLICTS WITH LyX 1.6.x !!! So, don't try to install LyX 2.0 together with LyX 1.6 - it will destroy/overwrite LyX 1.6 settings. For details, see http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7315). I still cannot find where the path to the LyX settings is hardcoded in the installer (aside from Settings.nsh), so the bug will remain there for the time being... You have been warned... Technical details ----------------- To compile LyX, I've used msvc 2008 express together with SCons, which is the recommended route for compiling LyX 2.0.0-beta4. For some reasons unknown to me, it is no longer the case with 2.0.0-rc1 (there, msvc 2010 with CMake are recommended) Then I've used the 'LyxPackage' released semi-officially by Uwe Stöhr for LyX 2.0beta3, replaced and changed some files, and finally built the installer. In case of any problems you can mail me, but I can't promise anything (please CC me, as I am not subscribed there). Regards, Michał Skrzypek