As I am responsible for the Win32-Releases I have followed the whole topic
and this is my comment:
At the moment, because LyX is NOT a Win32 native application you do need any
available X-Server. Xfree IMHO is not ready to be used by all users because
many things have to be configured manually depending on the color depth your
screen is using etc.! As fas as I can see most users prefer to use the
commercial XWin32-server because it's stable and can be installed as a
native Win32-application!
On the other side LyX as an Unix application needs access to Unix tools!
There still are bugs in CygWin and therefore newer releases will become
public! It is necessary to paticipate on these releases inside LyX so the
best way is to use the most current releases of CygWin for LyX! (Should
anyone prepare CD-ROM-Images each two weeks???)
The other problem are tools necessary to run LyX, say Ghostscript (oe for
Win32 to print and one for Cygwin to view images inside LyX). Only the
latest release is free according to the GPL. Same as above: Should anyone
prepare ....????
And don't forget: Who has enough Web-space available to store say 400MB
(Including fpTeX, CygWin, Ghostscript any free XServer, TkPaint, JFig etc.)
as an ISO-image???
Our (Ruurds and me) goal was to separate LyX from all dependending tools so
each package can be installed without (hopefully) any need to instal the
complete stuff again!
So my question (as mentioned on my Lyx/Win32 web-page): What's bad with the
current installation procedure for LyX on Win32? You do have a native
Win32-setup.exe for LyX itself as well as for useful packages (which not all
users are using)! And a complete Setup will take say less than 2 hours if
you do have a 56kbit-Modem!
Claus
