Registry handling on windows (installer)

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Sat Mar 7 06:30:20 UTC 2020


On 2020-03-06 22:06, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 3/6/20 3:24 PM, Daniel wrote:
>> On 2020-03-06 19:53, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>> There is something I have always wondered here, but never really
>>> understood. Why do WE end to install ImageMagick? Why can't we just
>>> have the user install it, like we do on other platforms, and then
>>> detect it via the registry, if that's what we need to do? If we were
>>> going to use configure.py for fix broken dependencies then we can
>>> just use it to detect them in the first place, no? There is the issue
>>> that any installed ImageMagick will be bigger than what we ship. But
>>> the huge benefit is that, if there's a security issue with
>>> ImageMagick (as there sometimes is), we don't have to issue a new LyX
>>> installer to fix it.
>>>
>>> I'd ask the same questions about Ghostscript and Python.
>>>
>>> Riki
>>
>> I guess the difference is that there is no package manager on Windows
>> (and on macOS?).
> 
> Yes, of course, but we don't install ImageMagick with LyX on OSX, do we?
> 
> [...]
> 
> Riki

Actually, I am not sure about that. At least I never installed it 
manually on macOS. Maybe it comes with the OS then?

Daniel



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