>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Attached. (I believe this is it anyway.) Maybe we could switch Angus> some things to and fro with the contents of Angus> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre ? I think we should put most of the win32-related text in README.Win32 (hereby replacing the current one). The relevant text about location of directories should go there too (and in README.MacOSX). We could put parts of the wiki page in README.Win32 too (or generate the readme from a wiki page). >> We should merge them. Concerning the setup, it seems to me that it >> is already good enough to be used. Am I right? Angus> I think so. I'd like to see the "pdflatex has problems with Angus> files with spaces" problem resolved, but we know how to do Angus> that. You mean we _don't_ know, right? Angus> Qt/Win Free doesn't handle Alt-foo key presses. Maybe we could Angus> get them to backport something from the just-released Qt 4.0? That is a big problem indeed. Didn't it use to work? >> What else should be done? Angus> See http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/software_audit.exe (65kB) for a Angus> work-in-progress towards a rewrite of the Windows installer. It Angus> doesn't "do" anything but shows what I'd like the "front" of Angus> the installer to become. Of all the "download" pages only the Angus> "unix" one is currently written but the rest should be easier. Angus> The idea is that the user with everything installed will needs Angus> to see only one "preliminary" page before going on to install Angus> LyX. I think I prefered the idea of default/custom installation, where default would only ask for things it _has_ ask. >From the text. Angus> LyX is now officially supported under Windows. The Windows port Angus> has almost the same functionality as its Unix counterpart. Angus> Beware, however, that it still suffers from the following Angus> limitations: Angus> * The spellchecker works only with the GNU aspell library. Is that a limitation? Especially since nobody uses ispell on win32. Angus> * External processes cannot communicate with LyX through a Angus> "named pipe". Is that a incomprehensible way to say that the lyxserver does not work? Angus> * The "autosave" facility which makes a back-up of your Angus> document every 5 or so minutes and which runs asynchronously on Angus> unix machines will block execution on Windows. Yes. Angus> Packaging Angus> MacOS, Unix and Windows each have different traditions for Angus> where an application should look for various files. This part could go in the respective READMEs. We should add some linkage to these readme files in the announcement. I think README.MacOSX should be renamed to INSTALL.MacOSX. Bennett, do you think a README.MacOSX would be useful? JMarc
