On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:30:24AM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > >Noooooooo! I already have these things installed. Trust the user! > > > >I manually deleted your shell and python directories, adjusted path_prefix > >to > >"C:/MSys/bin;C:/Python24;..." and everything works perfectly. > > Sure, it will work. But you don't notice any difference, right? I can > create additional detections methods for Python and MSYS and add two > more wizard pages to the installer, it however won't make things easier > for the user. > > You only increase the possibility that things go wrong. Unlike the other > components, LyX won't work at all without MSYS or Python. It won't even > start. > > These files are small and bundled anyway, so what's wrong with it?
If you have multiple msys dll's in your path, you can experience problems: http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mSysFromScratch-mSysDLL -- Enrico
