Am 07.04.2018 um 00:40 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
If MiKTeX can be broken some other
way, that's a bug in MiKTeX and not one we should be trying to fix via
the LyX installer.
That is the fundamental difference between my and your approach. I see
the user perspective. And for the user it is irrelevnat what causes his
problems. For him it is important to get a working system without the
need to learn about background things.
Users just want to use.
I as developer know the background and can act to assure the users will
get in every case a working LyX/LaTeX setup. I spent a lot of time in
developing a proper solution and will provide this via the installer.
The Win installer worked since its first days that way that it took care
about third-party components. In the past it contained many times
special code to workaround bugs in third-party programs that could later
be removed. So this case it not different.
On the question at issue.....
Do people really read release announcements?
Average users of course not. They also don't read dialogs, especially
long ones with lots of special words. But average users are the majority
(assuming we have a Gaussian distribution).
The Win installer therefore focuses on average users because they would
be lost if their MiKTeX/LaTeX is broken. Experienced users know what to
do, can read the announcement, google in forums etc.
My real problemm, though, is that I simply do not understand why we
can't have a dialog at the very beginning of the installation process
that says something like this:
I explained this now for sure more than 10 times.
Do you honestly think that is too confusing for average users?
Yes, definitely.
First, Do No Harm [1].
Well, that you state my solution would harm is what shock me. No, it
does not harm and I explained not.
regards Uwe
