Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I've seen you on the NSIS-lists and know that you'll build us a perfect installer. I now understand what you want to achieve. A thing that is missing in my installer is indeed a method to update only LyX or only a third party program when there's a problem with it. Exactly wh

Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg wrote: Because I already wrote lots of NSIS-based Windows installers, it is possible for me to provide you all with hack-free scripts that make everything a lot easier. If we now decide to go on with this integrated solution, we can really take LyX/Win to the next level. I've s

Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello Uwe, Just my two cents on that issue: Your installer helped me convinced some people to use LyX so I think that everybody agrees that it is very good. I can only suggest that you wait until Joost publish his new installer; maybe he have very good reasons to rewrite it instead of patchin

Re: Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I'm advertising my installer solution here not only because of the installer itself, it costs more time to get the installer working with the third party programs. The actual MiKTeX version was build for my installer and some new features are in now to be able to configure MiK

Future of LyX installer for Windows

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng wrote: The problems are with licenses, and size of installers, and admin right. The only complaint I received was the admin right problem. I asked several times about the licence issues and they are correct now - means there is no license issue at the moment. And about the size, my s