Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Hello Angus and volunteer installer testers, > I just uploaded an improved version of the installer to: > http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/
Woo! You've been busy! Uwe, why don't you get Lars to give you CVS write access to development/Win32/packaging ? That way you can merge your version into the 'official' one. I've been thinking over Asger's suggestion on how best to present all these packages. Given that the first thing we do is interrogate the Registry for their presence, we should be able to produce a first page something like: ========================================================================= Tools used by LyX LyX makes use of many other utilities. Some are required absolutely. Some will add functionality. Please check the boxes for those tools you'd like to play with more (wording to be 'improved' ;-)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [x] A unix shell J:\MinSYS\bin\sh.exe [] Python J:\Python24\python.exe . . . [] ImageMagick J:\Program Files\ImageMagick-Q16\convert.exe ========================================================================= The idea being that only those pages that are [x]-ed will be shown as the user moves through the pages of the installer. If the installer finds a package, then that page will be unchecked, although you can always [x] it manually. Thereafter, the Unix shell page would be something like: ========================================================================= Unix shell LyX needs a unix shell environment to run a number of important scripts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [x] Use MinSYS [] Use Cygwin [] Install LyX's minimal shell environment [] Download MinSYS [] Download Cygwin [ J:\MinSYS\bin\sh.exe ] [...] ========================================================================= What do you think? -- Angus
