On 09/09/2018 12:23 PM, Daniel wrote: > On 09/09/2018 18:12, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 09/09/2018 07:32 AM, Daniel wrote: >>> On 09/09/2018 01:35, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >>>> As mentioned previously, I am not going to build a "bundled" installer >>>> for 2.3.1. Indeed, I have removed the 'bundle' code from the installer >>>> at 8c32a1a7 and removed the bundled installer for 2.3.0 from the >>>> downloads page. I've added language instructing people to install a >>>> TeX >>>> distribution before installing LyX (as we do for OSX). >>>> >>>> I have also written this wiki page >>>> >>>> https://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/TeXLive >>>> >>>> to help people install TeXLive and this page >>>> >>>> https://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/TeXLivePackages >>>> >>>> to help people learn how to install packages. I'd appreciate it if >>>> people could have a look and make whatever changes or additions seem >>>> worth making. We could probably use, on one of those two pages, a >>>> quick >>>> guide to updating the TeXLive packages using the GUI. >>>> >>>> Soon, I am going to write small batch file that people can use to >>>> install various packages that LyX might want. I'll link that off the >>>> wiki, and probably include it in the Windows installer. I mean just >>>> the >>>> file itself. Not running it as part of the installer. >>>> >>>> Riki >>> >>> Thanks. That will hopefully help many users. But maybe there is still >>> a problem for non-English speakers? >> >> We could work to get this translated, but I'm not sure how. >> >> Riki >> >> > > I am not sure either. Unfortunately, there are no translated > instructions on the MiKTeX and TeX Live websites either, as far as I > could see. But their installers might be or they are at least pretty > much straight forward. Maybe there could be a link in the LyX > installer that opens the download website (if they are stable)? That > might help some people to quickly get going.
It's really preferable that TeX be set up before the LyX installation. I mean, we could create two new 'bundled' installers that did nothing but launch the TeX install for people, but I'm not sure I see the point of that. I think we should really re-think 'bundling' ImageMagick, etc, in the way we do, as well. Presently, it's not at all obvious how a user could update ImageMagick itself in the wake of the kinds of security issues we've just seen. You'd have to re-install LyX, really...and wait for us to release an updated installer. I guess I really need to update the included ImageMagick, but I'm not totally sure how to do that yet. Riki
