On 12/23/18 3:23 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2018 21:13:49 CET schrieb Kornel Benko > <kor...@lyx.org>: >> Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2018 21:07:50 CET schrieb Daniel <xraco...@gmx.de>: >>> On 23/12/2018 20:52, Kornel Benko wrote: >>>> Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2018 20:34:39 CET schrieb Daniel >>>> <xraco...@gmx.de>: >>>>> On 23/12/2018 20:27, Kornel Benko wrote: >>>>>> Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2018 18:28:57 CET schrieb Robert Betz >>>>>> <robert.b...@newcastle.edu.au>: >>>>>>> Anders, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Stephen Witt mentioned that he was using RSVG-convert. So I installed, >>>>>>> using macports librsvg. I did a reconfigure on Lyx, and now the svgz >>>>>>> snippets show up. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Don’t know why it is required to have this package, as Lyx should >>>>>>> supply everything it needs to make all these conversions work. >>>>>> No. >>>>>> rsvg-convert is independent of lyx, as is also inkscape or any other >>>>>> executable. >>>>> While Inkscape is not provided with LyX, rsvg-convert is, at least on >>>>> Windows. >>>>> >>>>> Daniel >>>>> >>>> By lyx? (If yes, then I think that is not OK, since it is not a program we >>>> created). >>> I am pretty sure by LyX since it is in the LyX bin directory. >>> >>> (I guess it is OK as long as no licenses are violates. On Windows, which >>> has no package dependency system like some Linux distributions, it is >>> pretty common that applications come with such helper applications, >>> especially for open source software.) >>> >>> Daniel >>> >> I am surprised. Riki, is that part of our installation script? >> >> Kornel >> > OK, found a file with a list of executables > development/Win32/packaging/installer/include/filelist.nsh. > Very strange policy for a unix user.
Yes, there's a bunch of stuff we install with LyX on Windows. My understanding, as Daniel said, is that this is because configuring this kind of thing on Windows is very difficult, due to path issues and the registry, etc, etc. Riki
