Joost Verburg wrote: > I still believe the best way forward is to start with the CMake build tools > and the new libraries I've recently ported to Visual C++
i also think this is the best approach in long term. > The question is whether this is feasible for 2.0. Perhaps I could start > with build instructions and a really basic installer script that does only > what's necessary to install LyX itself. From there we could continue to add > new features. However before doing anything like that we have to be sure > everyone agrees with this approach. possibilities about the official installer: 1. go in 1.6 way 2. only Uwe's installer (not official de iure, but de facto the only one we currently offer) 3. kill both of them and start the most elegant solution above. i have no hard opinions about the solution for 2.0 and my only role here is to trigger the discussion enough so we know where are we going. your proposal looks sensible to me, so we are mainly waiting on Uwe's reaction i guess. pavel