>>>>> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Bennett> Preparing for packaging up LyX/Mac-1.4.0, I've noticed a few
Bennett> minor changes that should be made:

Bennett> 1. Since the default location of the preferences file in the
Bennett> LyX/Mac bundle has moved from
Bennett> LyX.app/Contents/Resources/LyX/preferences to
Bennett> LyX.app/Contents/Resources/preferences, this should be
Bennett> reflected in LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor (but currently
Bennett> isn't).

OK.

Bennett> 2. The default setting for path_prefix in the preferences
Bennett> file should include /opt/local/bin.

OK.

Bennett> 3. Currently, the preferences file sets defaults for
Bennett> server_pipe and template_path to ~/Library/Application
Bennett> Support/LyX-1.4...; that's what I intend to do when I package
Bennett> up the LyX/Mac binary, but that's because I'll use
Bennett> --with-version-suffix=-1.4 when configuring. By default
Bennett> (given the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX), the "-1.4" suffix
Bennett> should not be in the preferences file, so I've removed it.
Bennett> (Is that the right thing to do? ... It would be better if
Bennett> this could be automatically generated at configure time....)

What we should do is change the semantics of things like server_pipe
template_path to be relative to the user directory when they are not
absolute paths.

Bennett> Also, please add the updated LyX-Metadata.mdimporter to svn
Bennett> (at development/MacOSX/LyX.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/).
Bennett> It can be found here:
Bennett> <http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-
Metadata.mdimporter.zip> . This should go in at least for 1.4.1.
Bennett> (Again, I'll update my distribution for 1.4.0.)

This one is a binary, right? I'll have a look.

JMarc

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