On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:37:10PM +0000, חיים רוזנר wrote: > Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]>: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:44:21AM +0000, Bernt Lie wrote: > > > > A naïve user who is not well versed in MikTeX may start to wonder how one > updates MikTeX. > > > > I would find it useful that the dialog makes it possible to start MikTeX > updating. > > If the user clicks on "Continue", then the LyX Installer would proceed > to do the update. > > Scott > > How about this: > This version of LyX needs MikTeX v. ? at least. The installer found only > earlier version of MikTeX / The installer could not find any installation > of MikTeX on your system.
This is good information. Because it could be that the LyX installer just doesn't recognize e.g. that the newest version of MiKTeX is installed, in which case the user might want to not proceed. > And the buttons shall read 'Cancel' and 'Update MikTeX and install LyX' or > 'Install MikTeX & LyX". > Perhaps it should be clear somehow that the installer updates MikTeX to the > most recent version, and tell the user what is the path of the old MikTeX > detected by installer. > > PS Is there an option to have two different MikTeX versions installed on > the same system? If there is such an option, then we need an option to tell > that's path to this installer. I don't believe there is that option. It might actually solve our problem if we just provided a separate MiKTeX installation that only LyX uses. I hadn't thought about that. On first thought that might be feasible if we weren't worried about hard drive space. Also, I think it could lead to some nasty complications (e.g. "it works in LyX but when I export and compile it no longer works"). Scott
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