Am 26.03.2014 01:41, schrieb Stephan Witt:
And who/what program should do this instead?
The LyX binary itself at run-time.
With platform dependent code to lookup the registry.
That would be tough. LyX needs the path to the following programs:
- Python
- MikTeX or TeXLive
- Ghostscript
- Imagemagick
- Perl
- Inkscape (if available)
- Gnumeric (if available)
- LilyPond (if available)
- GSview (if available)
- JabRef (if available)
The installer furthermore checks for image editors like Gimp so that you can edit images from within
LyX.
As I said an alternative can be a bundled python
with a well known path relative to the LyX binary
itself.
As said this is the case since the installer for LyX 2.0.5. Since the third installer for LyX 2.0.7
this is now also the case for Perl.
regards Uwe
