Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Bennett Helm]

On Mar 4, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:



This will be the last prerelease before the 1.4.0 proper is released.

Unless critical problems is discovered this will become 1.4.0 in a
reasonable short time.

Help to make sure that pre6 does not contain any brown-paperbag bugs
will be appreciated.

You can get pre6 from:

ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre6.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre6.tar.gz


A Mac binary and installer can be found here: . This should work at  
least for OS X 10.3.9 and higher.


Bennett

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0


Whoops, sorry about the spam. Unplugging my J drive seemed to do the
trick (I have a card reader with several drives attached). Hope this
is fixed in the final installer :)

On 3/4/06, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Sorry, more specifically, I get this error when trying to run lyx:

exception caught:
boost::filesystem::is_directory:
"J:\MSYS\home\Angus\LyX\devel\build\installprefix\Resources\locale":
the device is not ready
Assertion triggered in void boost::throw_exception by failing check "false" in file ../../src/boost.C:29



Well, this is odd. In the instructions for building LyX, I've seen a line 
like  "J:\MSYS\home\Angus\LyX\" QTDIR=J:\MinSys\home\Angus\qt3
because this is what Angus uses (J:). I think it was in install.Win32. 
Anyway the instructions say to change these values to those appropriate 
on your system. 
I have no J: drive so this quirk doen't display its menacing fangs.


 Angus wrote in  install.Win32:

"3.2 Compile the QT library

   Create two .bat files, in the top-level directory of the Qt tree,
   my_configure.bat and my_make.bat. Mine are shown below. 
   Obviously, you'll have to tweak them ;-)


   $ cat my_configure.bat
   set QTDIR=J:\MinSys\home\Angus\qt3
   set MINGW=J:\MinGW
   set PATH=J:\MinSys\home\Angus\qt3\bin;
J:\MinGW\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32; C:\WINDOWS
   set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++
   configure.bat -verbose"

-

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Stephen Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0


I can't get this version to work. Do I need to build the dictionaries
to make it work? I tried doing sh configure and it still won't load. I
uninstalled the old version of LyX too to make sure nothing was
interfering.

No, Aspell isn't needed to make LyX work, if you don't install
Aspell then LyX just doen't have that functionality. I think you
forgot to rename your LyX config folder up in Application data.

I have 3 Windows version of LyX installed and 1 Cygwin and all 
this works. "C:\Documents and Settings\UserID\Application Data" 
I made a desktop link to this directory which stores your LyX

prefs: C:\Documents and Settings\UserID\Application Data\LyX

I started by renaming that LyX folder in Application Data, to LyX137,
so that LyX doesn't see a LyX folder. When I installed LyX137v3, it
made its own LyX folder. Next, I renamed it, LyX, to LyX137v3. Next
I installed LyX140v2 which makes its own LyX folder. I rename
(right-click on folder, choose rename) that LyX folder to LyX140v2
when I want to switch back to using LyX137. Next I rename the
the folder called Lyx137 to simply LyX.

IOW, I put the preferences folder LyX in sync with the Lyx version
executable I want to use. Enrico thinks my method can be simplified.

When I installed the "old" WinLyX137, I selected C:\LyX and made a 
desktop link (right-click on lyx.bat or lyx.exe, Send To, and choose

Desktop (create shortcut) which puts a shortcut on the desktop.

When I installed LyX137v3 I installed it to C:\Lyx137v3. Then I used
the process described above to put a link for that lyx.exe on the desktop.
One can rename the shortcuts so that they say LyX137v3 etc to keep 
track of them. Finally I installed WinLyX140v2 in C:\Lyx140v2 and
made a desktop link for it. 


In summary, if I have been using WinLyx137 with the folder LyX
which has been used to store the 137 settings, and I want to use
LyX140v2; then I click on my Application data shortcut link which
is on my desktop and rename LyX to LyX137. I rename the LyX140v2
folder to LyX. Then I click on the desktop link which is named for
the LyX140v2 .exe or bat. I keep them matched up the lyx.exe version 
and the the LyX configuration file which was made during the install of 
that lyx.exe version and stored up in \Application data in a LyX folder.
Enrico's advice is in a recent thread, maybe in response to the **post. 


I didn't use Control Panel, Add and Remove Programs, to uninstall
my original version of LyX (137). It is not prudent to replace LyX137
with LyX140 now. IMO it is safer to keep both programs until Lyx1.4.1

I think a backup of C:\Aspell that works with LyX137 should be made
before building a new dictionary, especially data and dict. Building
the new dict made overwrite the old files in those folders and they
need to be kept separate from the /lib/aspell-0.60 contents. That is
why I think it is better to wait for the new dict packages being readied.
Installing Aspell is not part of the installing LyX140v2 method, but
apllies to how fully LyX140v2 functions afterwards. I don't think that
spellchecking works as well in 140 as 137 anyway. The fix is for 1.4.1

-

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/ a good resource.
**To: 
**Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:38 AM
**Subject: Re: side-by-side installation of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0

Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Maybe that sounded complicated, but it takes less than
15 seconds to switch back and forth by renaming folders. 
I don't know if it is this easy using Linux, but there should

be a way.


Enrico wrote:
You need not renaming your folders. Call one folder LyX137 and the 
otherLyX140 (place them wherever you want, too), than in your batch 
files call the lyx binary using the -userdir option to point it to the

location of the right folder.

C:\LyX\bin\lyx.exe -userdir C:\whatever\LyX137  <- for lyx 1.3.7
C:\LyX140\bin\lyx.exe -userdir C:\whatever\LyX140   <- for lyx 1.4.0



I see you have another post about this. I will mail this and read
your next. First glimpse seems like you are merging the build
instructions and the rather easy Angus LyX140v2 installation.

Regards,
Stephen 

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Stacia Hartleben]

Whoops, sorry about the spam. Unplugging my J drive seemed to do the
trick (I have a card reader with several drives attached). Hope this
is fixed in the final installer :)

On 3/4/06, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, more specifically, I get this error when trying to run lyx:
>
> exception caught:
> boost::filesystem::is_directory:
> "J:\MSYS\home\Angus\LyX\devel\build\installprefix\Resources\locale":
> the device is not ready
> Assertion triggered in void boost::throw_exception std::exception&> by failing check "false" in file ../../src/boost.C:29
>
> On 3/4/06, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can't get this version to work. Do I need to build the dictionaries
> > to make it work? I tried doing sh configure and it still won't load. I
> > uninstalled the old version of LyX too to make sure nothing was
> > interfering.
> >
> > On 3/4/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:33 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0
> > >
> > >
> > > I agree completely - I was trying to figure out how to compile it for
> > > windows but couldn't...But I would very much like to test the new
> > > version.
> > >
> > > ---  Some Windows information.
> > >
> > > This is not quite as new but might be useful for
> > > testing until there is a newer binary,
> > >
> > > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX140pre/lyx-1.4.0pre_win32_setup_v2.exe
> > >
> > > It was provided by Angus Leeming. To get spellchecking to work,
> > > the newly downloaded dictionary (aspell5-6.0-0)goes in
> > > C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 and it has to be built. It might be better to
> > > ignore spellchecking until they finish re-building the newer dicts and
> > > put them into packages which they intend to do for Lyx1.4.0 proper.
> > >
> > > I also copied the contents ~\aspell6\aspell-0.60.4\data (iso-8859-1.cset
> > > etc.)
> > > into the folder, C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.6; the rest of the installation 
> > > went
> > > smoothly and the problem that some of us had of typing "sh configure"
> > > again at the end of the installation has been resolved.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Stephen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Stacia Hartleben]

Sorry, more specifically, I get this error when trying to run lyx:

exception caught:
boost::filesystem::is_directory:
"J:\MSYS\home\Angus\LyX\devel\build\installprefix\Resources\locale":
the device is not ready
Assertion triggered in void boost::throw_exception by failing check "false" in file ../../src/boost.C:29

On 3/4/06, Stacia Hartleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't get this version to work. Do I need to build the dictionaries
> to make it work? I tried doing sh configure and it still won't load. I
> uninstalled the old version of LyX too to make sure nothing was
> interfering.
>
> On 3/4/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
> > Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0
> >
> >
> > I agree completely - I was trying to figure out how to compile it for
> > windows but couldn't...But I would very much like to test the new
> > version.
> >
> > ---  Some Windows information.
> >
> > This is not quite as new but might be useful for
> > testing until there is a newer binary,
> >
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX140pre/lyx-1.4.0pre_win32_setup_v2.exe
> >
> > It was provided by Angus Leeming. To get spellchecking to work,
> > the newly downloaded dictionary (aspell5-6.0-0)goes in
> > C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 and it has to be built. It might be better to
> > ignore spellchecking until they finish re-building the newer dicts and
> > put them into packages which they intend to do for Lyx1.4.0 proper.
> >
> > I also copied the contents ~\aspell6\aspell-0.60.4\data (iso-8859-1.cset
> > etc.)
> > into the folder, C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.6; the rest of the installation went
> > smoothly and the problem that some of us had of typing "sh configure"
> > again at the end of the installation has been resolved.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Stacia Hartleben]

I can't get this version to work. Do I need to build the dictionaries
to make it work? I tried doing sh configure and it still won't load. I
uninstalled the old version of LyX too to make sure nothing was
interfering.

On 3/4/06, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0
>
>
> I agree completely - I was trying to figure out how to compile it for
> windows but couldn't...But I would very much like to test the new
> version.
>
> ---  Some Windows information.
>
> This is not quite as new but might be useful for
> testing until there is a newer binary,
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX140pre/lyx-1.4.0pre_win32_setup_v2.exe
>
> It was provided by Angus Leeming. To get spellchecking to work,
> the newly downloaded dictionary (aspell5-6.0-0)goes in
> C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 and it has to be built. It might be better to
> ignore spellchecking until they finish re-building the newer dicts and
> put them into packages which they intend to do for Lyx1.4.0 proper.
>
> I also copied the contents ~\aspell6\aspell-0.60.4\data (iso-8859-1.cset
> etc.)
> into the folder, C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.6; the rest of the installation went
> smoothly and the problem that some of us had of typing "sh configure"
> again at the end of the installation has been resolved.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen
>
>
>
>

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Sven Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0


I agree completely - I was trying to figure out how to compile it for
windows but couldn't...But I would very much like to test the new
version.

---  Some Windows information.

This is not quite as new but might be useful for
testing until there is a newer binary,

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX140pre/lyx-1.4.0pre_win32_setup_v2.exe

It was provided by Angus Leeming. To get spellchecking to work,
the newly downloaded dictionary (aspell5-6.0-0)goes in
C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.60 and it has to be built. It might be better to
ignore spellchecking until they finish re-building the newer dicts and
put them into packages which they intend to do for Lyx1.4.0 proper.

I also copied the contents ~\aspell6\aspell-0.60.4\data (iso-8859-1.cset 
etc.)

into the folder, C:\Aspell\lib\aspell-0.6; the rest of the installation went
smoothly and the problem that some of us had of typing "sh configure"
again at the end of the installation has been resolved.

Regards,
Stephen

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Stacia Hartleben]

I agree completely - I was trying to figure out how to compile it for
windows but couldn't...But I would very much like to test the new
version.


On 3/4/06, Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb:
> > This will be the last prerelease before the 1.4.0 proper is released.
> >
> > Unless critical problems is discovered this will become 1.4.0 in a
> > reasonable short time.
> >
> > Help to make sure that pre6 does not contain any brown-paperbag bugs
> > will be appreciated.
> >
>
> If you guys really want to get it thoroughly tested, I humbly suggest
> providing binaries for all supported platforms.
>
> (Please don't confuse unwillingness-to-build with unwillingness-to-help,
> but it's so much more efficient if the people who have everything
> already set up for making a binary just upload their output, and if the
> time of normal users is actually used for testing instead of struggling
> with the build process.)
>
> Looking forward to 1.4 with excitement...!
> -sven
>

Re: Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Sven Schreiber]

Lars Gullik Bjønnes schrieb:
> This will be the last prerelease before the 1.4.0 proper is released.
> 
> Unless critical problems is discovered this will become 1.4.0 in a
> reasonable short time.
> 
> Help to make sure that pre6 does not contain any brown-paperbag bugs
> will be appreciated.
> 

If you guys really want to get it thoroughly tested, I humbly suggest
providing binaries for all supported platforms.

(Please don't confuse unwillingness-to-build with unwillingness-to-help,
but it's so much more efficient if the people who have everything
already set up for making a binary just upload their output, and if the
time of normal users is actually used for testing instead of struggling
with the build process.)

Looking forward to 1.4 with excitement...!
-sven

Prerelease 6 of 1.4.0

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

This will be the last prerelease before the 1.4.0 proper is released.

Unless critical problems is discovered this will become 1.4.0 in a
reasonable short time.

Help to make sure that pre6 does not contain any brown-paperbag bugs
will be appreciated.

You can get pre6 from:

ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre6.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/pre/lyx-1.4.0pre6.tar.gz

-- 
Lgb