On 06/14/2011 01:07 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Am 14.06.2011 15:11, schrieb Richard Heck:
I intend to build and tag LyX 2.0.1 on Wednesday---
This is not possible because MiKTeX has a nasty bug that breaks the
installations on Windows:
When LyX is installed finally the configure.py is run. This checks for
missing LaTeX-packages. When MiKTeX tries to install the arabic.ldf it
hangs and quits the script. Therefore all other packages in the list
below arabic are skipped and not installed -> LyX won't work as
expected as about 30 packages are missing.
I reported this bug yesterday to the MiKTeX developer and hope he can
fix it soon.
Moreover, this bug leads also to the fact that Galician, Arabic and
Farsi documents are not compilable.
So I think releasing a Windows version of 2.0.1 doesn't make sense due
to this problem.
Is this a problem with current MiKTeX? Is there an older version that
works? I am happy to wait a bit for this, but I'd prefer not to have to
delay 2.0.1 until the MiKTeX people can get their act together.
Besides this, I ready you email too late and begun to test if our
templates, doc and example files are compilable. We once agreed to
save all files in the latest file format before a major release. This
was obviously forgotten. While doing this now, I found about 15
uncompilable documents. For some of them I could already fix the bugs,
but there are still about 10 that currently don't compile, e.g. the
tufte files, modernCV, amsbook-test.
This obviously needs to be fixed but isn't immediately pressing, since
they wouldn't have compiled before anyway.
I therefore request to delay 2.0.1 some more days if possible.
It'll be delayed a bit due to the ftp upgrade. Keep me posted.
Richard
