Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-04 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 11:44:43PM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 03.03.2018 um 19:24 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > > > > > I have a similar concern to Richard (and a similar disclaimer that I > > > > don't know much about Windows). Even if what you put is the case, I > > > > would prefer for the LyX i

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 03.03.2018 um 19:24 schrieb Scott Kostyshak: I have a similar concern to Richard (and a similar disclaimer that I don't know much about Windows). Even if what you put is the case, I would prefer for the LyX installer to just give an error such as "Cannot install LyX without the newest version

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 05:17:21PM +, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 12:26:35AM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Am 02.03.2018 um 20:59 schrieb Richard Heck: > > > > > I don't know a lot about Windows, but let me just ask: Do we really want > > > to force people to upgrade some ot

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 05:52:17PM +, racoon wrote: > > > On 03.03.2018 18:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 12:26:35AM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2018 um 20:59 schrieb Richard Heck: > > > > > > > I don't know a lot about Windows, but let me just ask: Do we r

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-03 Thread racoon
On 03.03.2018 18:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 12:26:35AM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 02.03.2018 um 20:59 schrieb Richard Heck: I don't know a lot about Windows, but let me just ask: Do we really want to force people to upgrade some other package when they install LyX?

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 12:26:35AM +, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 02.03.2018 um 20:59 schrieb Richard Heck: > > > I don't know a lot about Windows, but let me just ask: Do we really want > > to force people to upgrade some other package when they install LyX? > > As I wrote in a previous post, the

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-02 Thread racoon
On 02.03.2018 20:16, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Here is the final analysis: - I created a new installer that forces a silent MiKTeX update. This assures that every user gets the current MiKTeX package handling system. Do you know how I can check whether I already have the current MiKTeX package handlin

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-02 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 02.03.2018 um 20:59 schrieb Richard Heck: I don't know a lot about Windows, but let me just ask: Do we really want to force people to upgrade some other package when they install LyX? As I wrote in a previous post, the thing is that MiKTeX released in February a new package handling system

Re: Summary for the Win installer problem

2018-03-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/02/2018 02:16 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Here is the final analysis: > > - there is definitely no Virus or so, these false positives can be > ignored > > - there is a bug in LyX we need to fix: > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11053 > > - I created a new installer that forces a silent MiKTeX upd