On 06/18/2018 06:28 PM, Stefan Weigert wrote:
> Dear Lyx team
>
> I'm using Lyx with great pleasure for many years now and look forward
> to each update with great anticipation as it gets better and better.
> Thank you for the enormous efforts you continue put into it.
>
> This email is just to comment on the unusual situation of not being
> able to use the most recent vs. 2.3 on Windows.
>
> After reading up a bit on various forums I understand that there is
> some conceptual problem which you guys are trying to solve - and I
> hope you'll be able to do soon. I am probably not the only one
> exporting my Linux 2.3 lyx files repeatedly to 2.2.3 for a
> collaborator using Lyx on Windows - this works but is awkward.
>
> I thinkthat the average user - like myself - would greatly appreciate
> an explanatory message on the Lyx homepage why there is no Windows
> version available (a bit more than "unfortunately" - half a sentence
> would be fine, I think). I am a bit worried that you might loose some
> windows users if the situation remains unexplained.
It's not an easy thing to explain without re-litigating the issue or,
more precisely, taking a stand on it, and we didn't want to do that. The
problem is that the person who has been building the Windows installer
wanted to do one thing, and literally everyone else on the LyX team
thought we absolutely could not do that. So, as the saying goes, they
took their ball and went home.
The good news is that we should be publising an official installer late
this week or early next week. It has taken me a while to figure out how
to build it---I haven't used Windows for 15 years or so---and to figure
out for myself what to do about the problem you mentioned. And frankly
it's not something that does me a damn bit of good, so I've had to do it
when I've had time.
> It would be even nicer if there was a link to a version I could
> install at my own risk, or be told about some workaround if one
> existed... :-)
Well, there are these:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/
But definitely do use at your own risk.
Riki
