Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Wojcik
This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. But some of your response is simply factually incorrect. So, for the record: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-12-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:20:40PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. When I am not really interested in arguing a point anymore, I just stop doing it. I don't consider that a bad habit. [...] So, for the record:

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Wojcik
This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. But some of your response is simply factually incorrect. So, for the record: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-12-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:20:40PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. When I am not really interested in arguing a point anymore, I just stop doing it. I don't consider that a bad habit. [...] So, for the record:

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Wojcik
This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in arguing the point. But some of your response is simply factually incorrect. So, for the record: Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: >> Andre Poenitz wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-12-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:20:40PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: > This has gone on far too long, and I'm not really interested in > arguing the point. When I am not really interested in arguing a point anymore, I just stop doing it. I don't consider that a bad habit. > [...] > So, for the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk space problem would be even worse. I meant just for

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. ... Many people have done back-of-the-envelope

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've worked on many projects that maintained backward compatibility with new releases of the API, and seen a great many

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:26:30AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today.

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've worked on many projects that maintained backward

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 23/11/2008 16:26, Michael Wojcik wrote: In older versions of the Microsoft toolchain, you could just drop the MSVC DLLs into the same directory as your executable. That's no longer allowed (I think as of Visual Studio 2005 and Platform SDK 6.0). Now they have to be installed into the SxS

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
- The 4.3 BSD kernel. Extended multihead support in the console driver and wrote some drivers for new hardware. Enhanced the shared memory kernel option. Nothing that didn't want to use the new features needed to be recompiled. Spring (?) 2001 - January 2002. Sorry to jump into your

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk space problem would be even worse. I meant just for

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. ... Many people have done back-of-the-envelope

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've worked on many projects that maintained backward compatibility with new releases of the API, and seen a great many

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:26:30AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today.

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I've worked on many projects that maintained backward

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 23/11/2008 16:26, Michael Wojcik wrote: In older versions of the Microsoft toolchain, you could just drop the MSVC DLLs into the same directory as your executable. That's no longer allowed (I think as of Visual Studio 2005 and Platform SDK 6.0). Now they have to be installed into the SxS

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
- The 4.3 BSD kernel. Extended multihead support in the console driver and wrote some drivers for new hardware. Enhanced the shared memory kernel option. Nothing that didn't want to use the new features needed to be recompiled. Spring (?) 2001 - January 2002. Sorry to jump into your

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make >> the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the >> absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk >> space problem would be even worse. > > I meant

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the >>> application goes away. >> Completely infeasible on Windows. ... >> Many people have done >>

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: >> Andre Poenitz wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> I've worked on many projects that maintained backward compatibility >> with new releases of the API, and seen a great

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:26:30AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make > >> the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the > >> absurd amounts of RAM available in typical

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:21:27AM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: > >> Andre Poenitz wrote: > >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> I've worked on many projects that

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 23/11/2008 16:26, Michael Wojcik wrote: In older versions of the Microsoft toolchain, you could just drop the MSVC DLLs into the same directory as your executable. That's no longer allowed (I think as of Visual Studio 2005 and Platform SDK 6.0). Now they have to be installed into the SxS

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> > - The 4.3 BSD kernel. Extended multihead support in the console driver > > and wrote some drivers for new hardware. Enhanced the shared memory > > kernel option. Nothing that didn't want to use the new features needed > > to be recompiled. > > Spring (?) 2001 - January 2002. Sorry to jump

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:58:50PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one without any existing or imagined problem.

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know that

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Chicken! Does not even dare to be rude anymore. JMarc

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk space problem would be even worse. I meant just for application which feel that they

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... pavel

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... Andre'

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... of

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Richard heck
Andre Poenitz wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Best to start now, eh? rh

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:58:50PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one without any existing or imagined problem.

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know that

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Chicken! Does not even dare to be rude anymore. JMarc

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk space problem would be even worse. I meant just for application which feel that they

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... pavel

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... Andre'

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... of

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Richard heck
Andre Poenitz wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Best to start now, eh? rh

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:58:50PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only > > very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one > > without any existing or imagined

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about >> 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of >> files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Wojcik
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the > application goes away. Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:42:52PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > >> I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about > >> 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:47:45PM -0500, Michael Wojcik wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the > > application goes away. > > Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make > the working set of the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Chicken! Does not even dare to be rude anymore. JMarc

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Completely infeasible on Windows. The loss of shared text would make the working set of the typical application mix grossly exceed even the absurd amounts of RAM available in typical machines today. The disk space problem would be even worse. I meant just for application which feel that they

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking > in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... pavel

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking > > in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. > > feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition... Andre'

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking > > > in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. > > > > feel free to uncover yourself, users list is not evaluated... > > Nobody expected the Spanish

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-18 Thread Richard heck
Andre Poenitz wrote: PPS: I cut a few smileys from the mail to avoid the embarassing ranking in the 1.7 smiley-per-mail statistics. Best to start now, eh? rh

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Wojcik
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a problem with the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know that something depending on

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one without any existing or imagined problem. What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Wojcik
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a problem with the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know that something depending on

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one without any existing or imagined problem. What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Wojcik
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: > >> On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script >> failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as >> suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think >> there is a problem with

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Wojcik wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:07:05AM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I wonder if disk manufacturers are paying M$ to do this? I've got about > 54MB of crap in %windir%\winsxs, with multiple versions of each set of > files. Presumably there's no way for Windoze to know that something >

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In fact that's actually the most sensible behaviour since there are only > very few cases where a new version indeed can replace an older one > without any existing or imagined problem. What's wrong with static linking? At least it goes away when the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: In the bin directory is a python26.dll file. Oh -- I just saw that I have a full Python installed on the WinXP machine (I didn't realize that, sorry...). It's Python 2.5.1 This means that you have Python 2.5.1 installed but the installer didn't

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Should I try to install Python on Vista and try to convert from LyX 1.5 to 1.6 again? That would likely work. Alternatively, you might install the M$ VC++ redistributable package

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a problem with the python.exe and/or

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: In the bin directory is a python26.dll file. Oh -- I just saw that I have a full Python installed on the WinXP machine (I didn't realize that, sorry...). It's Python 2.5.1 This means that you have Python 2.5.1 installed but the installer didn't

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Should I try to install Python on Vista and try to convert from LyX 1.5 to 1.6 again? That would likely work. Alternatively, you might install the M$ VC++ redistributable package

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a problem with the python.exe and/or

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: >> In the bin directory is a python26.dll file. >> Oh -- I just saw that I have a full Python installed on the WinXP >> machine (I didn't realize that, sorry...). It's Python 2.5.1 > This means that you have Python 2.5.1 installed but the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: >> Should I try to install Python on Vista and try to convert >> from LyX 1.5 to 1.6 again? > That would likely work. Alternatively, you might install the M$ VC++ > redistributable package >

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable package, as suggested by Paul Rubin, and now the lyx2lyx script works. So I think there is a problem with the python.exe and/or

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Dominik »Ingrid« Waßenhoven wrote: I installed LyX 1.6.0 on WinXP without problems and can open lyx files of the 1.5.x series. But on Windows Vista, the same installation cannot read 1.5.x files. I forgot: I used Uwe's AltInstaller. Opening

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, you might check try converting a file manually on the Vista box, using a DOS shell. This would look something like C:\Program Files\LyX16\python\python.exe C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx doc.lyx where doc.lyx is the old document. If it works,

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, you might check try converting a file manually on the Vista box, using a DOS shell. This would look something like C:\Program Files\LyX16\python\python.exe C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx doc.lyx where doc.lyx is the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: In the bin directory is a python26.dll file. Oh -- I just saw that I have a full Python installed on the WinXP machine (I didn't realize that, sorry...). It's Python 2.5.1 This means that you have Python 2.5.1 installed but the installer didn't recognize it. I'm

new LyX installer for Vista was: Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: p.s. I'll provide a new installer version within the next 2 hours that fixes some Vista-specific bugs. You can now download this version from: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=15417 That fixes the following bugs: - fix a bug in the Romanian

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Dominik »Ingrid« Waßenhoven wrote: I installed LyX 1.6.0 on WinXP without problems and can open lyx files of the 1.5.x series. But on Windows Vista, the same installation cannot read 1.5.x files. I forgot: I used Uwe's AltInstaller. Opening

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, you might check try converting a file manually on the Vista box, using a DOS shell. This would look something like C:\Program Files\LyX16\python\python.exe C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx doc.lyx where doc.lyx is the old document. If it works,

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, you might check try converting a file manually on the Vista box, using a DOS shell. This would look something like C:\Program Files\LyX16\python\python.exe C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx doc.lyx where doc.lyx is the

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: In the bin directory is a python26.dll file. Oh -- I just saw that I have a full Python installed on the WinXP machine (I didn't realize that, sorry...). It's Python 2.5.1 This means that you have Python 2.5.1 installed but the installer didn't recognize it. I'm

new LyX installer for Vista was: Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: p.s. I'll provide a new installer version within the next 2 hours that fixes some Vista-specific bugs. You can now download this version from: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=15417 That fixes the following bugs: - fix a bug in the Romanian

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: >> Dominik »Ingrid« Waßenhoven wrote: >>> I installed LyX 1.6.0 on WinXP without problems and can open lyx files >>> of the 1.5.x series. But on Windows Vista, the same installation cannot >>> read 1.5.x files. >> I forgot: I used Uwe's

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Also, you might check try converting a file manually on the Vista box, > using a DOS shell. This would look something like >> "C:\Program Files\LyX16\python\python.exe" "C:\Program >> Files\LyX16\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx" doc.lyx > where doc.lyx is the old document. If

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Also, you might check try converting a file manually on the Vista box, using a DOS shell. This would look something like "C:\Program Files\LyX16\python\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx" doc.lyx where doc.lyx is

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dominik Waßenhoven schrieb: In the bin directory is a python26.dll file. Oh -- I just saw that I have a full Python installed on the WinXP machine (I didn't realize that, sorry...). It's Python 2.5.1 This means that you have Python 2.5.1 installed but the installer didn't recognize it. I'm

new LyX installer for Vista was: Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-15 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: p.s. I'll provide a new installer version within the next 2 hours that fixes some Vista-specific bugs. You can now download this version from: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=15417 That fixes the following bugs: - fix a bug in the Romanian

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-14 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dominik »Ingrid« Waßenhoven wrote: I installed LyX 1.6.0 on WinXP without problems and can open lyx files of the 1.5.x series. But on Windows Vista, the same installation cannot read 1.5.x files. I forgot: I used Uwe's AltInstaller. Regards, Dominik.-

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Dominik »Ingrid« Waßenhoven wrote: I installed LyX 1.6.0 on WinXP without problems and can open lyx files of the 1.5.x series. But on Windows Vista, the same installation cannot read 1.5.x files. I forgot: I used Uwe's AltInstaller. Opening a 1.5.x doc requires

[Fwd: Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)]

2008-11-14 Thread Sergio Celani
I have the same problem in Windows Vista with the Uwe's AltInstaller. Sergio Dominik Waßenhoven escribió: Dominik »Ingrid« Waßenhoven wrote: I installed LyX 1.6.0 on WinXP without problems and can open lyx files of the 1.5.x series. But on Windows Vista, the same installation cannot

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-14 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Dominik »Ingrid« Waßenhoven wrote: I installed LyX 1.6.0 on WinXP without problems and can open lyx files of the 1.5.x series. But on Windows Vista, the same installation cannot read 1.5.x files. I forgot: I used Uwe's AltInstaller. Regards, Dominik.-

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