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