Op 5-9-2011 17:39, Uwe Stöhr schreef:
Am 21.08.2011 11:00, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn:
- I used the custom LaTeX installer page from my installer, only
because
this is already translated to 22 languages. The page design is a
matter of
taste, so we can also use yours if you prefer it for a certain
reason.
This page doesn't fit in the framework of the installer and uses a
deprecated NSIS plug-in for the
GUI. We now have two different GUI codes in place, one using the
modern nsDialogs code and the old
code based on INI files.
If you don't mind I'll put back the nsDialogs version and we'll just
transfer the translations.
AFAICS this hasn't been done yet.
Uwe, are you still planning to revert to the nsDialogs version ?
For now not. This can be done any time later. Once this installer is
ready for usage we will ask people to translate it. Therefore the
nsDialog strings are in the language files of the installer. When we
got them translated, we can switch.
Currently we have translations for 22 languages and thus should use
them. For the nsDialog strings we currently only have them for 3
languages.
I don't understand. Joost proposed to "transfer the translations". I
would expect them to use the same strings and thus the same translations.
Yea the detection of external programs became really messy now. We
should merge and clean this up.
What I don't like about this MiKTeX detection code is the lack of
forward compatibility (e.g.
MiKTeX 2.10 won't work) and the code duplication for each version.
What it wrong with the generic code that I used?
The problem with the generic code is that you expect every MiKTeX
version to act the same. But this was not the case in the past.
Registry entries changed and even names of executables we need to
configure MikTeX. So we need to check each major release, e.g. the
future MiKTeX 2.10 (which is probably not released under this version
number but as MiKTeX 3.0).
So, if you have a newer MikTeX installed, you prefer to not be able to
use it over the fact that people use it and it might not work completely
right (in some exceptional cases) ?
Vincent
