Dear list, I spent several boring hours installing mingw, tetex (most time-consuming), perl, python, and then lyx/win. The result is a much better windows version of lyx than before. I am grateful that I can finally edit my lyx files on both platforms.
However, needless to say, the installation process is too long, if not too complicated, to be enjoyable. Is there any particular reason 1. why lyx/win does not use cygwin to provide shell/tetex/per/python? Choosing some packages from cygwin is much easier to install several components separately. 2. If cygwin can not be used, can we use just perl or python? Afterall, both languages are powerful and one can supposedly do whatever another language can do. Thanks. Bo
