On 07/02/2012 04:42 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Am 02.07.2012 10:23, schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
I find the "LyX 2.0.4" naming useful. For example, when LyX moved from
2.0.1 to 2.0.2 it brought problems on my system: "sticky" scrolling,
and
memory leakage which caused a number of crashes, and I needed to revert
to 2.0.1. I like to be able to install the latest version side by side
with the previous one until I'm comfortable that it works properly.
I've
just installed 2.0.4 beside 2.0.3.
The point is that you can reinstall 2.0.1 if there is a problem and
it will still work with your
local files and preferences.
Unfortunately not on Windows. The reason is that we deliver
stripped-down versions of ImageMagick, Ghostscript and Python with
LyX. So assume you have uninstalled LyX 2.0.3 and the installed 2.0.4
or you have installed 2.0.4 over an existing 2.0.3, you can later
reinstall an older LyX version, but the stripped-down programs remain
in subfolders of LyX 2.0.4. So you then have to adapt the paths in the
older LyX version manually and to do this you need some background
knowledge.
If everything's just being installed to LyX20 or whatever, isn't this
issue resolved? Why should LyX 2.0.4 install ImageMagick with different
names than LyX 2.0.1 did? Why isn't that uninstalled with LyX?
I guess my proposal would be not to change the names or paths of what we
install during a major cycle.
Concerning new bugs in stable releases, this does happen, but very
rarely, and we actively try to
avoid this. I am not sure this happens often enough to justify a
different packaging.
I can understand why people prefer this. When I was at the end of my
Ph.D. I also did not remove the LyX version I found stable.
Regressions in branch are rare but they happened and no matter how
less probable they are, if you suffering from one and you are running
against a deadline you suffer 100%. Therefore I would like to continue
support for side-by-side installation of LyX bugfix releases.
Isn't it possible for users to choose to install to a different location
if they wish to do so? I'd have thought the issue here was what we do by
default.
Richard
