Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 19/05/2018 5:12 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 05/18/2018 11:16 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 05/18/2018 04:32 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new installers. The questi

Re: Error messages with lyx2.3

2018-05-18 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 06:40:00PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 16/05/2018 à 20:01, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 01:43:45PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > > I think you are right that it is during metrics. Tracing some things, > > > RenderGraphic::metr

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 05/18/2018 11:16 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 05/18/2018 04:32 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >>> I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new >>> installers. The question is how now to proceed. Note that these are

Re: Windows Installers: TESTING ONLY

2018-05-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2018, 19:14 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > Is there a concrete proposal to be made here? I.e., that the 'bundle' > installer should install TeXLive? And default to 'medium' (if we can > make it do that)? I can't make a fair judgment, since I really don't know MikTe

Re: Error messages with lyx2.3

2018-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 16/05/2018 à 20:01, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 01:43:45PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I think you are right that it is during metrics. Tracing some things, RenderGraphic::metrics seems to be responsible for starting the preview, and it gets called from InsetGr

Re: Windows Installers: TESTING ONLY

2018-05-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 16/05/2018 à 05:33, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : PS Certainly one thing I've learned is that installing LyX with MikTeX takes *forever*, and I've got a fast internet connection. It would be nice to know what packages we need to install to compile the User Guide, etc, and just install those,

Re: Windows Installers: TESTING ONLY

2018-05-18 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 05/18/2018 07:56 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> Another possibility is to abandon the bundle installer and tell people >> they need to install a TeX distribution (and here are some links) >> before installing LyX. > Maybe the best option initially is it to keep it a

Re: Windows Dependencies

2018-05-18 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 05/18/2018 08:09 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> I've uploaded the zip file with Uwe's Windows dependencies (Python, etc) >> to here >> >>     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/win_deps/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015.zip >> >> Others should be able to build our installers on W

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 05/18/2018 04:32 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new >> installers. The question is how now to proceed. Note that these are >> questions for 2.3.0 (and probably 2.3.1, since I will t

Re: Windows Dependencies

2018-05-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > I've uploaded the zip file with Uwe's Windows dependencies (Python, etc) > to here > >     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/win_deps/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015.zip > > Others should be able to build our installers on Windows, and you need > this stuff to do so. We wi

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > 1) Should we include any form of the 'update MiKTeX' code, with a dialog > asking for permission to perform the update, or should we not do so? Unless we also do also bundle with MiKTeX it might be better to stay distribution agnostic. But no strong opinion either.

Re: Windows Installers: TESTING ONLY

2018-05-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > Another possibility is to abandon the bundle installer and tell people > they need to install a TeX distribution (and here are some links) > before installing LyX. Maybe the best option initially is it to keep it as simple as possible. I am not sure how much rewa

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I've fixed the problems reported by people who've tried the new installers. The question is how now to proceed. Note that these are questions for 2.3.0 (and probably 2.3.1, since I will turn my attention to that once this issue is resolved).

Link to windows installers

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Please ignore my previous message. I see the link  that pointed to version 1 now points to version 3. I will install it and try it out. Andrew --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: LyX 2.3.0 on Windows

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 18/05/2018 11:27 a.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: ... I guess I am a bit nervous about these installers, since I have no idea what I'm doing, and we didn't get THAT much feedback from my previous messages. Riki I'm very happy to try your latest version if you can provide a link. Andrew -