On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: > Am 01.09.2011 16:46, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: > > > Was this bug fixed? >>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/**ticket/7737<http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7737> >>> >> > I don't know what this is about. guess that Joost is downloading MiKTeX > fro somewhere. I'll have a look. > > In th merged installer MiKTeX is directly included. So even if you don't > have Internet access, you can install LyX and it will work with its basic > features. There were some reasonable user requests in the past to include > MiKTeX directly and the MiKTeX maintainer kindly built in some features for > us in his basic installer. > >
I would prefer not to include MikTeX in the installer. Most people that download LyX already have MikTeX installed, so why would you bother them with a huge download. > Why do we keep specifying the build number for MikTex. If they release a >> new version with a new >> build number, our link breaks. >> > > This number in the merged installer is part of the executable. This will be > called to install MiKTeX. What I can do is to get rid of this number and > rename the MiKTeX basic executable and include this one in the installer. > But the amount of work for packaging will be the same: either update the > version number in the setup script or rename the executable. The first > method has the advantage that if there are problems we can ask the user > which MiKTeX installer version they used. > Ah so.. but when the installer downloads MikTeX from the web, we better can use the link without a build number. That was my point. It has happened too often that the MikTeX link fails. Vincent
