On 12/3/20 10:56 AM, Yu Jin wrote:
Am Mi., 2. Dez. 2020 um 22:28 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org <mailto:rikih...@lyx.org>>:On 12/2/20 3:37 PM, Yu Jin wrote:Am Mi., 2. Dez. 2020 um 20:24 Uhr schrieb <_johnny7_...@web.de <mailto:johnny7_...@web.de>>: Perfect, thank you for elaborating on this. I suspected something along these lines but wanted to be sure. It is generally handy to be able to update so it is good to hear this will still be supported (but I assume for 2.4 it won't be possible?). Every major release will have to be installed freshly, meaning into an empty folder. This is not because of the installer itself though, but rather because of LyX. Usually major releases bring new features and get rid of some old stuff, so a fresh "restart" is needed. The installer for 2.4 won't detect your LyX 2.3 because of that. It will also be the same for 2.5 and so on. But once you have a 2.4 installation, every next minor release (2.4.x) will again be able to detect your older 2.4 installation as usual and propose to install over it. This was always the case and will always be the case (well, except for the case of 2.3.6 :)Just to add a little bit to this: I knew the new installer would bring some hiccups. But, since we have had only good reports about it, and since a 64 bit version is especially important, it seemed worth going ahead now. Eugene, will the 2.4.x installer migrate user preferences from 2.3.x (assuming they are found in the most usual place)? It would be very good if it could.Not as it is now, it should be no problem to implement though. I can do it, will it be enough to copy "preferences" and "session" from old userdir to the new one?
I'd just copy over the entire old user directory. The user may have templates, layout files, etc, that they'd like to use with the new version. We have mechanisms to convert things to the new format as needed. The first launch will over-write whatever files need over-writing.
On Linux, the user directory typically does not change between versions. So we know this works.
Riki
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