New Windows Installers for Testing

[Enrico Forestieri]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 11:26:53AM +0200, Yu Jin wrote:
> Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 09:40 Uhr schrieb Andrew Parsloe <
> ajparsloe at gmail.com>:
[...]
> > 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.
> >
> While reading the NSIS code, I never understood why the official installer
> does that, or if it is even the installer what does that in the first
> place. I mean you can open the installer with 7zip as an archive and you
> will see that these folders are not in there, so they must be created
> during the installation, but I can't tell what is responsible for it. Does
> anyone else have an idea here?

See below.

> > 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?
> >
> Same here, I have no idea if they are needed and have not seen anything in
> the NSIS code related to these .lst files.

Those directories and .lst files are created in the directory that is
the current one when configure.py is run. That means that the current
directory was the bin one in a case, and the main dir in the other one.
I think that before running configure.py the current directory has to
be changed to the Resources one.

-- 
Enrico