On Mar 20, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:4. The second script deletes the existing default templates, examples, and tex files before it creates the links. This is because the LyX/Mac installer currently copies these files rather than creating links, so that the attempt to create a link will currently fail without first deleting. (LyX/Mac users have been warned not to modify files in these directories because they will be replaced by future installers.)What is the status of these scripts now? What are the plan for the installer? In particular, is there still a problem for browsing in the lyxdir/example and friends directories?
Almost nothing has changed since Jan. 3rd. I don't know how to integrate the two parts of this script into configure.py and the LyX launch routine, as you had suggested before -- both of which seem like the right thing to do.
The only other thought I had was to delete .lyxpipe* when launching LyX: at least on Mac, only one instance of an application is allowed to be running at a time, so this would seem a desirable feature. (The only catch would be if someone has two versions of LyX -- LyX-1.5.app and LyX-1.6.app -- and runs them simultaneously. I do that only for testing, but I don't know if it would cause problems for others.)
I'm attaching the most recent version of the script I have. Bennett
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