Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Angus> Ok, Jean-Marc. I propose that on Windows machines we do
> Angus> something similar to Ghostscript: $ ls /mnt/windowsXP/Program\
> Angus> Files/Ghostscript\ 8.33/gs8.33/ bin doc examples lib Resource
> Angus> uninstal.txt
>
> We can do that, but not everybody is pleased to have to uninstal old
> versions when installing new ones.
Why would people have to uninstall anything? I can imagine
C:\Program Files\LyX\1.3.6\{bin,share}
user lyxdir:
C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX\1.3.6
Coexisting quite happily with
C:\Program Files\LyX\1.4.0\{bin,share}
user lyxdir:
C:\Documents and Settings\Angus\Application Data\LyX\1.4.0
> Angus> I propose a directory 'C:\Program Files\LyX\1.3.6' containing
> Angus> sub-directories 'bin', 'locale' and 'share'. I don't see any
> Angus> reason to make life complicated for ourselves.
>
> As you prefer.
Of course, that should have been
"sub-directories 'bin' and 'share', the 'share' directory
itself containing directories 'lyx' and 'locale'."
if it were to have a structure similar to that on a Posix machine.
That seems like a lot of levels of nested directories ;-) Given your
statement that the 'locale' directory is to be found as a subdirectory of
the LyX system directory on MacOS X, I'll modify my proposal to a
directory C:\Program Files\LyX\1.3.6 containing sub-directories 'bin' and
'Resources'. The 'Resources' directory will be the system lyxdir and will
contain a subdirectory 'locale'.
In other words, the directory structure on Windows will be similar to that
on MacOS X. Please correct me if I've got things wrong.
--
Angus
