On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
... 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.
I'm not sure I understand: is this how LyX currently works (so that it's a change I can just make)?
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.
Yes. (Source code is available at <http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/ MacOSX/lyx-metadata-source.zip>.)
Bennett
