Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > What exactly do you propose then ? Do you propose to have LyX determine > the Python location on run-time ?
IMHO this would be a good idea indeed. > Would this mean to search the whole > harddrive for a python.exe ? No. On *nix, you just use the PATH environment variable. On windows, you look in the registry. The only problem with this is that until now nobody sat down and wrote the windows specific code to access the registry. This does not only hold for python, there are several utilities which should be detected in configure.py by looking at the registry. For one of them I even filed a bug in trac (I forgot which one), but nothing happened. Georg
