Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Are you aware that is has been a huge amount of work to create proper
Windows ports of Aspell, the Aspell dictionaries, gettext, iconv,
pplatex etc. and to make this all MSVC compatible? You have included all
these things in your installer. That's of course fine with me, but it's
not really fair to say that you have not used my code.
I think it is not fair to say that you have done all of that alone.
That's not what I wanted to say. I'm just saying that it took quite some
time to create the patches for these libraries so they work properly
with LyX and MSVC. Just like Uwe spent a lot of time to get bugs fixed
in the installers of external tools.
Anyway this is not really relevant for the discussion. The relevant
question is whether we want to continue with two different installers in
the future.
Please, only install additional software if it is not already installed.
I think the most important reason why Uwe wants to bundle this software
is because the already installed version may be outdated. I don't have a
strong opinion about this.
Bundling a subset of the required application ensures that there won't
be any compatibility issues, and we only need a part of
Imagemagick/Ghostscript. When they would be bundled in the official
installer I would prefer to keep these files separate for LyX itself
instead of modifying the registry keys that are normally used by these
applications. This is because other application may also rely on
ImageMagick or Ghostscript and they should not be broken.
Joost
