On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:07:41PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Further, if you're correct and /foo/bar causes problems, then why not > > > transform such paths to \foo\bar form before spawning lyx.exe? > > > This is what happens on win2k. According to Bo, lyx.exe is hidden on winxp > > when use either '/' or '\' as a path delimiter. > > So why not combine all the information you've accumulated: > > wrapper.exe /c cmd.exe [optional path/to/]lyx.exe [options] > > is long-winded but apparently works. > > wrapper.exe [optional path/to/]lyx.exe [options] > > is nicer for the user does not work on Win2K. > > So why not allow the nice, friendly interface to wrapper.exe, but internally > pass in "cmd.exe" to CreateProcess? > > C'mon, guys, there's no need for a general purpose, generic wrapper here. > It's > perfectly acceptable to use something that's more hard-coded and specific to > our own needs here.
Agreed. I think the wrapper should be named lyx.exe and should internally call the real lyx named lyxc.exe. The wrapper should examine the command line for options of the form /VAR=val in order to set environment variables as appropriate and should pass everything else onto lyxc.exe. -- Enrico
