Thank you Uwe for all your contribution. I have not followed this debate because I do not use much the Windows version, but the diversity of tools cannot hurt in any case. So, thank you for your good work! Best regards, Murat
Murat Yildizoglu Le 9 juil. 2018 à 23:00 +0200, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@lyx.org>, a écrit : > Dear LyX users, > > despite unannounced until today there is an Windows installer available > for LyX 2.3.0 since March: > https://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/LyXWinInstaller/ > and > http://ftp.lyx.de/LyXWinInstaller/LyX2.3.0/ > > Due to some disagreements with some LyX developers, this will not be the > official LyX for Windows installer. However, it works and was already > downloaded more than 1000 times since March. > > Due to the disagreement with the understanding how LyX under Windows > should be developed, I will provide the LyXWinInstaller as my private > project and support it of course. > > The LyXWinInstaller will take care of everything that provides you a > fully functional LyX. That means LyXWinInstaller will take care of all > third-party programs LyX is using in the background (MiKTeX, TeXLive, > Python, ImageMagick, Inkscape etc.) and will configure and update them > for you. The goal is, as for the last years where LyXWinInstaller was > the official LyX for Windows installer, to provide an installer where > 90% of the users just have to click few times OK and Nextbut to get a > fully functional LyX but that also gives some freedom for the 10 % power > users (to deselect third-party programs etc.). > > As I understood it, there will be a new installer for LyX under Windows > from the LyX developers based on the code of LyXWinInstaller. I can and > will not give support for this installer because I was not involved in > this development. > > regards > Uwe Stöhr > >
