Re: Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-10-02 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 10/2/18 6:51 AM, Daniel wrote: > On 01/10/2018 03:05, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> I take it that the reason to have versioned user directories is so >> people can have parallel installations of 2.2 and 2.3, say. But you can >> still do that, of course, by manually setting the user directory.

Re: Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-10-02 Thread Daniel
On 01/10/2018 03:05, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I take it that the reason to have versioned user directories is so people can have parallel installations of 2.2 and 2.3, say. But you can still do that, of course, by manually setting the user directory. How many people do that anyway on Windows?

Re: Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-10-01 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Le 01/10/2018 à 17:28, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : On 10/1/18 4:02 AM, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: Le 01/10/2018 à 03:05, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : [...] I take it that the reason to have versioned user directories is so people can have parallel installations of 2.2 and 2.3, say. But

Re: Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-10-01 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 10/1/18 4:02 AM, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Le 01/10/2018 à 03:05, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : > [...] >> >> I take it that the reason to have versioned user directories is so >> people can have parallel installations of 2.2 and 2.3, say. But you can >> still do that, of course, by manual

Re: Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-10-01 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
lly only > one thing causing the problem, testing LyX as I go until the offending > item shows up. Thanks for the example. >> I wonder if, all things considered, a better option would be to stop >> using versioned user directories on Windows, at least. Then no special >> c

Re: Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-10-01 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Le 01/10/2018 à 03:05, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : [...] I take it that the reason to have versioned user directories is so people can have parallel installations of 2.2 and 2.3, say. But you can still do that, of course, by manually setting the user directory. How many people do that anyway

Re: Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-09-30 Thread Andrew Parsloe
d directory, since there is usually only one thing causing the problem, testing LyX as I go until the offending item shows up. I wonder if, all things considered, a better option would be to stop using versioned user directories on Windows, at least. Then no special copying is needed, etc. If we did

Versioned User Directories on Windows

2018-09-30 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
s some problem with the old preferences? Something seems wrong about this to me. I wonder if, all things considered, a better option would be to stop using versioned user directories on Windows, at least. Then no special copying is needed, etc. If we did this for 2.4, then we could tell people