On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 02.09.2013 um 17:50 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org>:
>
>> 02/09/2013 17:38, Vincent van Ravesteijn:
>>> This code apparently only works when version suffix is set to -2.0 and
>>> -1.6. In some sense, this is rather arbitrary and the use might have any
>>> suffix he wants. On Windows the user dir looks like: "LyX2.0".
>>
>> Yes, I forgot this part :) This needs to be a bit more general...
>>
>> A solution would be as I proposed to call some python script when the user 
>> directory does not exist. This python script would be provided by the 
>> packager (at least for now). Nothing would happen if there is no script.
>>
>> That would IMO be a good short-term solution, allowing Stephan to hardcode 
>> for now according to the usual mac naming conventions...
>
> I'd like to reanimate this issue. The problem mentioned in this thread is not 
> solved.
>
> For Mac users hardcoded version suffixes are no problem. They are -1.6 resp. 
> -2.0, period.
>
> For Linux or Windows users the attached patch has no effect.

Is there a problem then ? You say that you can fix it on Mac, and
there is no problem on Linux.

Uwe, have you though about this in your installer ?

Vincent

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