On 05/18/2018 04:32 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new >> installers. The question is how now to proceed. Note that these are >> questions for 2.3.0 (and probably 2.3.1, since I will turn my attention >> to that once this issue is resolved). Larger questions about how to >> proceed with the Windows installer can be deferred to 2.3.2 if not >> 2.4.0. >> >> It's my hope that we can find someone to take over building the >> installer, etc, before too long. I'm happy to do it for a bit.... >> >> So, questions. >> >> 1) Should we include any form of the 'update MiKTeX' code, with a dialog >> asking for permission to perform the update, or should we not do so? >> >> 2) Should we try to get wider testing of these new packages by >> advertising the putatively final version on the users' list before doing >> an official release? >> >> I have no strong opinion about (1), though I don't think it would be too >> difficult to include such a dialog. I gather that the risk is that >> updating LyX itself could trigger a partial update (due to packages >> being installed at compilation time) that will break MiKTeX. As Pavel >> said, the people this might affect seem to be only folks who did some >> kind of update between October and January, but who knows. The main >> issue would be getting translations of the message in the dialog. I >> guess I could write to the relevant folks and ask for quick responses. >> There's also Google, if all else fails. I suppose another option would >> be for me to contact the MiKTeX maintainer and see what they think. >> >> Regarding (2), I guess I am a bit nervous about these installers, since >> I have no idea what I'm doing, and we didn't get THAT much feedback from >> my previous messages. >> >> Riki > > I've run LyX-230-Installer-103.exe. It has installed and from a very > first glance, LyX is displaying a couple of complex documents > correctly. The only obvious thing at this stage is that the LyX icon > (an irregular LyX in large blue type) is missing and a generic windows > program icon has taken its place (see attached).
I noticed that, but didn't realize what it was. I'll try to figure out what's wrong. Riki
