Re: LyX installer stops when compiling python script

2013-12-11 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
Thank you, I found that this strange behaviour is due to the viruses (malwares). Now after struggling to remove them, I can reinstall lyx, It can run as usual. I have to be extra careful with this box running windows. regards, waluyo On 10 December 2013 15:05, Hugo Hinterberger wrote: > On Mon

Re: LyX installer stops when compiling python script

2013-12-09 Thread Hugo Hinterberger
On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:14:02 +0100, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: What is this problem and how I can install lyx again. Hi waluyo, As far as I know LyX does not need to be installed, it should work fine when being copied from an existing installation. After copying you just need to check t

Re: LyX installer stops when compiling python script

2013-12-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > I have a problem when installing LyX 2.06. (Windows 7) > It always stops when compiling python script. (see attachment) > I have tried to uninstall all including miktex, the install using the bundle > installer, it also stops at the sam

Re: LyX installer: MiKTeX download fails

2009-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> Maybe the source in SVN still contains basic-miktex.2.7.2960.exe, but when I build the installers > I always include the latest version. But the problem is real and probably Vincent is right: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg150268.html Can you please have a look? (I btw

Re: LyX installer: MiKTeX download fails

2009-04-18 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Joost Verburg schreef: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Vincent van Ravesteijn schrieb: I don't understand. I ship already basic-miktex-2.7.3248.exe. > Joost's installer doesn't. It downloads "basic-miktex.2.7.2960.exe" from "http://www.ctan.org/get/systems/win32/miktex/setup/";. Aha, this explains a lot

Re: LyX installer: MiKTeX download fails

2009-04-18 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Vincent van Ravesteijn schrieb: I don't understand. I ship already basic-miktex-2.7.3248.exe. > Joost's installer doesn't. It downloads "basic-miktex.2.7.2960.exe" from "http://www.ctan.org/get/systems/win32/miktex/setup/";. Aha, this explains a lot. This is a one year old

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: What do you mean. When you set the option to install LyX for all users, a global file association for .lyx is set. When a user logs in, why should he change this? But anyway, when he wants to do this, he can do this via the folder options of the Windows file explorer as for all

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> Your installer does not always take user specific settings into account (file associations etc.). What do you mean. When you set the option to install LyX for all users, a global file association for .lyx is set. When a user logs in, why should he change this? But anyway, when he wants to do

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-23 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That's what I meant, not all programs work when you don't install them with admin priviledges. The Ghostscript developers will also not change this. I btw. could convince them today to provide Windows binaries for the version 8.62 they released 2 months ago as this fixes some b

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> A bundled subset of Python is installed, you don't need to have Python installed. > >>What about Ghostscript? > > Ghostscript currently requires administrator privileges to install. That's what I meant, not all programs work when you don't install them with admin priviledges. The Ghostscr

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-23 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I tested out yesterday to install LyX as user-only using your latest installer. The installation works, but the system I get is not complete and not very useful - regarding image preview. I ve a full Python installation, but what if I don't have, does it work to install Python

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
>>We have these restrictions here too and the admins absolutely don't like that users install >> things. Even when it is possible with user permissions, some things will automatically be undone >> when relogin. I discussed this with our admins a few times and they convinced me not to offer

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-22 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: What is btw. pplatex for? The DVI post-processing for change tracking. Joost

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-22 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: But haven't you done so the time Christian tried to bring us working together? I had this time rewritten major parts of my code as suggested by Christian. The plan was that these parts will be taken and other parts of your installer to create a new one which code we both under

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
>>Please, only install additional software if it is not already installed. > > I think the most important reason why Uwe wants to bundle this software is because the already > installed version may be outdated. This is one reason (especially for ImageMagick), the other one the download size

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> Are you aware that is has been a huge amount of work to create proper Windows ports of Aspell, the > Aspell dictionaries, gettext, iconv, pplatex etc. and to make this all MSVC compatible? You have > included all these things in your installer. That's of course fine with me, but it's not reall

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-22 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I think you misunderstood me. I think the word 'misunderstanding' probably plays a huge part in the "dramas" we see on mailing lists... Perhaps it played a central part in the recent drama about embedding although I can't say as I didn't follow it.

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-20 Thread Joost Verburg
Enrico Forestieri wrote: Are you aware that is has been a huge amount of work to create proper Windows ports of Aspell, the Aspell dictionaries, gettext, iconv, pplatex etc. and to make this all MSVC compatible? You have included all these things in your installer. That's of course fine with me

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-20 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:51:04PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Are you aware that is has been a huge amount of work to create proper > Windows ports of Aspell, the Aspell dictionaries, gettext, iconv, > pplatex etc. and to make this all MSVC compatible? You have included all > these things in

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-20 Thread Joost Verburg
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Uwe, this is just my 2 cents, if you still don't want to merge your effort with Joost's just say "no", no need for another drama after the embedding stuff :-) I'm also not interested in long discussion without results. I just want to say that I don't have strong opini

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-20 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I mean I have contacted the authors of MiKTeX, ImageMagick, Ghostscript, JabRef to get versions I could use for the installer. I even wrote for JabRef a new installer, I developed together with the MiKTeX developer some interfaces that were needed, ... So I'm not the one dupli

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-20 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: My installer had this time some Windows specific settings, so that LyX under Windows looked a bit different than the Linux version, that not all developers liked, but these changes were requested by users. This was the reason why your installer was not accepted as the official

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> if this is true how did it happen, that your installer is an alternative one? Angus started a Windows installer, I joined him and sent a lot of patches. Angus later retired and I took over and created my installer. About a year later Joost appeared on the devel-list, and announced his install

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> I always ask the developers for comments when I add new features (other than NSIS code >> optimization and things like that). > Uwe, I think you should reconsider your position about this story. Unless you find it fun to > develop your own personal solution (in which case I

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> The problem is that most of the installer features are from me and later > bit by bit also used in Joost's installer, if this is true how did it happen, that your installer is an alternative one? > And he doesn't need to collaborate with me? I don't understand why someone > who joined the Ly

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
>> I always ask the developers for comments when I add new features (other than NSIS code >> optimization and things like that). > Uwe, I think you should reconsider your position about this story. Unless you find it fun to > develop your own personal solution (in which case I fully respect you

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-18 Thread José Matos
On Friday 18 April 2008 09:30:07 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Uwe, this is just my 2 cents, if you still don't want to merge your > effort with Joost's just say "no", no need for another drama after the > embedding stuff :-) I always thought that Fridays are perfect for dramas. :-) > Abdel. --

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Joost Verburg wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is that you always did your own thing with the installer. I have never had a chance to contribute or discuss with you before you do a change. I always ask the developers for comments when I add new features (other than NSIS code optimization

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-16 Thread Joost Verburg
Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is that you always did your own thing with the installer. I have never had a chance to contribute or discuss with you before you do a change. I always ask the developers for comments when I add new features (other than NSIS code optimization and things like that).

Re: LyX Installer

2008-04-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Joost Verburg schrieb: I've recently rewritten large parts of the official installer in trunk. Everything should now be much easier to understand (no more stack usage for functions, more comments and meaningful variable names) and has also been updated to use the latest NSIS technologies (Mod

Re: lyx installer

2007-01-25 Thread Michael Gerz
Joost Verburg schrieb: I'm not using the Aspell 0.60.x releases because of their broken Windows support. Currently in use is a Windows port of a recent Aspell CVS version. I'll prepare a new pre-compiled Qt4 when there is agreement about the installers. 0.60.5 was released after you grabbed you

Re: lyx installer

2007-01-25 Thread Joost Verburg
I'm not using the Aspell 0.60.x releases because of their broken Windows support. Currently in use is a Windows port of a recent Aspell CVS version. I'll prepare a new pre-compiled Qt4 when there is agreement about the installers. Joost

Re: lyx installer

2007-01-24 Thread Michael Gerz
Joost Verburg schrieb: Edwin Leuven wrote: lyx is nearing it's first beta for the 1.5 release and we could use some help with the installer. we were hoping you could free some time for this. BTW: Do you have any plans to update lyx-windows-deps-msvc-qt4.zip? There are new versions of both qt

Re: lyx installer

2007-01-24 Thread Edwin Leuven
Bo Peng wrote: If everyone including Uwe thinks this is a good idea we can have a single official installer very soon. I am not sure about others... i think we all agree that only one official installer is needed, and personally i think joost's one is the obvious choice here. furthermore,

Re: lyx installer

2007-01-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bo Peng wrote: If everyone including Uwe thinks this is a good idea we can have a single official installer very soon. I am not sure about others... AFAIK Uwe explicitly said that he was waiting for Joost to reappear in order to work with him. Now that you are here and motivated again Joost,

Re: lyx installer

2007-01-24 Thread Bo Peng
I prefer to use provide an official and unmodified LyX version and believe that changes should be discussed on the list and implemented on all platforms. These are the current consensus regarding windows installer and is exactly the reason your installer is the official one. Although it would

Re: lyx installer

2007-01-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Edwin Leuven wrote: lyx is nearing it's first beta for the 1.5 release and we could use some help with the installer. we were hoping you could free some time for this. It took me a lot of time to write an installer that complies with all the requirements of the LyX users and developers, based

Re: LyX Installer & qtwin

2006-01-18 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz wrote: Angus, if you intend to build another LyX 1.3.7 installer, could you please update the qtwin library at the same time? Christian has committed a patch today that looks interesting. Among others, it may address the flickering problems seen on Windows. If you visit http://w

Re: LyX Installer & qtwin

2006-01-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 23:08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Michael Gerz wrote: > > > Angus, > > > > if you intend to build another LyX 1.3.7 installer, could you please > > update the qtwin library at the same time? Christian has committed a > > Eh... I think you got

Re: LyX Installer & qtwin

2006-01-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Michael Gerz wrote: > Angus, > > if you intend to build another LyX 1.3.7 installer, could you please > update the qtwin library at the same time? Christian has committed a Eh... I think you got the wrong name there, unless there's another Christian on this list. /Christ