Uwe Stöhr wrote: > 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.
No. It is tedious (because of testing), but the idea and the code is simple, see my patch at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7657 which can easily be adjusted to all the following programs if they can be detected by some registry keys.. > 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) All these should be checked by configure.py. The only exception is python itself, for obvious reasons. Georg
