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

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

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

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

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 thi

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

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
recognize it. No, I think I was not clear enough. The second sentenc you cited above bear on my insallation on a WinXP system, where your installer worked perfectly. On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable

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 python26

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
recognize it. No, I think I was not clear enough. The second sentenc you cited above bear on my insallation on a WinXP system, where your installer worked perfectly. On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I now installed Microsoft's VC++ redistributable

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 python26

Re: lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-16 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
e Python 2.5.1 installed but the installer didn't > recognize it. No, I think I was not clear enough. The second sentenc you cited above bear on my insallation on a WinXP system, where your installer worked perfectly. On the Vista machine, I had no Python installed and the lyx2lyx script failed. I n

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 python26

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

lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-14 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi all, 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 attach a file example which could not be opened on Vista, but could on WinXP:

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

lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-14 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi all, 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 attach a file example which could not be opened on Vista, but could on WinXP:

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

lyx2lyx script broken (1.6.0 on Vista)

2008-11-14 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Hi all, 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 attach a file example which could not be opened on Vista, but could on WinXP:

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

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