Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: MiKTeX is now very stable and thanks to Christian Schenk, the MiKTeX developer in some fields especially developed for our needs. Hmm... this gave me a thought. I'm not sure what the situation is currently, but could the (eventual) LyX installer invoke the MikTeX i

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:22:34PM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >A part of me even feels that checking out MSI might be worth it, if it's > >less low level... I guess it depends on how much we require of > >developers working with the installers. My hope was that you

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:24:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >OTOH, the NSIS language pretty much feels like assembler anyway ;-) > > Exactly my impression... Joost, is that on purpose? I think it's the result of wanting a small memory footprint. However, I'd guess that this would also

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Peng
Yes. It would be easier if Bo could update SCons so they are included automatically. I heard it, although I have no idea what this file is. Will have a look later. Cheers, Bo

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-21 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Something I forgot to test: Does the official installer come wit the latest versions of the xx_TOC.lyx files in the documentation? If yes, we can close this bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2947 Yes. It would be easier if Bo could update SCons so they are included

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-21 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A part of me even feels that checking out MSI might be worth it, if it's less low level... I guess it depends on how much we require of developers working with the installers. My hope was that you wouldn't need a detailed knowlegde of NSIS to understand, but I'm scepti

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-21 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The last days were hard: Since the release of LyX 1.4.4 I wrote now over 100 emails to give support. Besides two bugs in my installer, that are now fixed, I noticed the following open bugs with the official installer: - lyxc.exe crashes (unfortunately I couldn't reproduce this

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:03:14 pm Andre Poenitz wrote: One advantage would be that # is used in lots of common languages as comment whereas ; somehow smells like assembler. ; is used to start comments in lisp and scheme, no? I wish the installers

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:03:14 pm Andre Poenitz wrote: > One advantage would be that # is used in lots of common languages > as comment whereas ; somehow smells like assembler. ; is used to start comments in lisp and scheme, no? -- José Abílio

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Uwe Stöhr wrote: MiKTeX is now very stable and thanks to Christian Schenk, the MiKTeX developer in some fields especially developed for our needs. Hmm... this gave me a thought. I'm not sure what the situation is currently, but could the (eventual) LyX installer invoke th

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:45:08PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Bo Peng schrieb: 1. Joost and Uwe: Why do you guys prefer ; instead of # for comments? Do you mind if I change ; to #? What would be the advantage, I think we both use ; so why changing this?

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:45:08PM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Bo Peng schrieb: > >1. Joost and Uwe: Why do you guys prefer ; instead of # for comments? > >Do you mind if I change ; to #? > > What would be the advantage, I think we both use ; so why changing this? One advantage would be that # is u

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: I noticed the following open bugs with the official installer: ... I forgot to mentione the still existing "missing textclasses.lst" problem I solved by chance by running configure.py twice (as I reported several times on this list). regards Uwe

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Something I forgot to test: Does the official installer come wit the latest versions of the xx_TOC.lyx files in the documentation? If yes, we can close this bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2947 regards Uwe

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng schrieb: Christian and I are comparing two installers, with some quick results in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/WindowsInstaller#toc4 , please modify this page in defense of your installers because they might not be tested fairly due to iterative installation/uninstallation. I've currently

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Bo Peng wrote: I tortured a PC with four 1.5.xsvn installers, and here are some initial observations. Hi, Joost and Uwe, Christian and I are comparing two installers, with some quick results in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/WindowsInstaller#toc4 , please modify this page in

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-20 Thread Bo Peng
I tortured a PC with four 1.5.xsvn installers, and here are some initial observations. Hi, Joost and Uwe, Christian and I are comparing two installers, with some quick results in http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/WindowsInstaller#toc4 , please modify this page in defense of your installers because they

Re: Features of four installers.

2007-02-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Bo Peng wrote: I tortured a PC with four 1.5.xsvn installers, and here are some initial observations. Did you use something like a virtual machine that you "reset" after each installation, or did you just activate the uninstall options? I'm asking because when I did my t