On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:23:03PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > >Sorry that I have not read your patch.. but executable names are > >irrelevant under windows now. > > They are only relevant for Cygwin.
No, the behavior is the same on Cygwin. Executables discovered by configure.py are relevant only if there are no system preferences set for a particular file format. If one doesn't like the default associations and wants to use something else in LyX, then he can explicitely set his associations in Tools->Preferences. I think that the search performed in configure.py should not be abandoned as it is a nice fall back in case something is screwed up. I mean, if for some reason I have a broken installation for gsview such that it doesn't get registered for viewing pdf files but I have it in the PATH, then I can save the day if configure.py looks for it. -- Enrico
