> I never liked that behavior but the consensus was to act this way. The >> problem is also here the time. E.g. a users worked the last time with >> LyX 2.0.2 then he did not use it for a year and uninstalled it. Now he >> installs LyX 2.0.7 but will get the preferences from hos old 2.0.3. -> >> error prone because e.g. Python might once have been on a network drive >> which does no longer exists. >> > > If python moves without notification you have a problem even if LyX has > not been uninstalled... > > But again: why on earth would the python path be stored in the preferences > file? This file should contain only the changes done explicitly by the > user. If it contains something else, we have a bug. >
What exactly do you propose then ? Do you propose to have LyX determine the Python location on run-time ? Would this mean to search the whole harddrive for a python.exe ? Would you want to store the python path in the Windows registry instead ? Would you want to hardcode this into configure.py to look for "../Python/python.exe" explicitly ? > > From what you say, I suspect that you installer modifies the preferences > file. Is this the case? It would be terribly wrong. > Isn't that where we have lyxrc.dist for ? So, it might not be as terribly wrong in general (I'm not talking about the path specifically). > > JMarc > Vincent
