New Windows Installers for Testing

[Andrew Parsloe]

On 9/06/2020 5:09 am, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Mon, 8 Jun 2020 18:58:18 +0200
> schrieb Yu Jin <technikmagma at gmail.com>:
>
>>   Am Mo., 8. Juni 2020 um 18:00 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <
>> rikiheck at lyx.org>:
>>
>>> On 6/8/20 11:19 AM, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> I just tried this installer. It looks like it's missing a kind of
>>>> signature:
>>> Does this also happen with the 'official' LyX installer? If not, I
>>> wonder why not?
>>>
>> Yeah this happens on any software which is not known to Windows (from what
>> the web says
>> <https://windowsreport.com/windows-defender-smartscreen-unrecognized-app/>).
>> Programs, which not many users use (however Microsoft gets that data) are
>> considered insecure, this prompt will stop showing up eventually when
>> enough users run the installer. It will also not appear when you want to
>> run it a second time after you clicked on "run anyway" on previous
>> execution. FYI I just downloaded the official installer and got this prompt
>> when trying to run it for the first time.
>>
>>> Also, when starting the installer, it complained that LyX was already
>> open, even though it was just a development version. I suppose that this
>> check should be performed much later, i.e. just when actually starting the
>> installation: is the LyX version installed in that folder already started?
>>
>> Ok, your feedback has reached me, I will see what I can do there.
>>
>> Eugene
> You could use versioned lyx for the devel version.
> (I suppose you are using the same name for both executables?)
> OTOH, I may as well not understand what's going on.
>
> 	Kornel

I've just installed LyX 2.3.5 on windows 10 with both the 32-bit 
(59.7MB) installer and the 64-bit (51.7 MB) installer. Both installed 
without any warning from windows, 64-bit to C:\Program Files\LyX 2.3 and 
32-bit to C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.3. Both run my current document 
without any obvious problem.

It's very noticeable when looking at the directory structures of the two 
installations that they are very different. Should this be the case? 
There seem to be a lot of redundancies. I've attached a screenshot of 
the main directories in the two cases (main-dir.png). Many of the 
sub-directories shown in the 64-bit installation are empty. The same 
directories with contents are found under Resources.

I've also attached a comparison of the bin directory in the two cases 
(bin-folders.png). In this case most of the folders shown in the 32-bit 
bin installation are empty duplicates of what is in Resources. Should 
the .lst files be in this directory for the 32-bit installed LyX?

Under Resources, things seem to be the same except that the 32-bit has 
the two files HunspellDictionaryNames.txt and 
ThesaurusDictionaryNames.txt which aren't in the 64-bit installation 
Resources.

Andrew

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