On 10/2/18 6:51 AM, Daniel wrote: > On 01/10/2018 03:05, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> I take it that the reason to have versioned user directories is so >> people can have parallel installations of 2.2 and 2.3, say. But you can >> still do that, of course, by manually setting the user directory. How >> many people do that anyway on Windows? > > I seem to remember plans for having an installer closer to master for > Windows since otherwise it gets so little tests. That might be an > argument in favor of versioned directories (or at least support for > installing LyX to work out of the box with a special testing user > directory, like LyXalpha or so, and copy the old user directory over > so that people can easily test their current setup as well).
Maybe there is some option we could have there. I'll have to think about it. Riki