Am 02.09.2011 08:41, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn:
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.
For these people we have the standard installer. The bundle installer is especially designed for new
installations and therefore includes MiKTeX and JabRef (is optional). So the standard installer will
not bother the user and is as small as possible to update existing LyX installations. This variant
therefore expects an installed MiKTeX. If no MiKTeX or TeXLive is found, it will throw a warning
that the bundle installer should be 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.
Sure, but this is only the case in Joost's installer not in the merged one which will be our new
installer, hopefully to be ready for LyX 2.0.2. Despite of the installation without admin
privileges, it is ready to use in my opinion, please check it out, if you find some time.
regards Uwe
