New Windows Installers for Testing

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 09/06/2020 à 13:00, Yu Jin a écrit :
> Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 12:40 Uhr schrieb Enrico Forestieri 
> <forenr at lyx.org <mailto:forenr at lyx.org>>:
> 
>     On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 12:26:34PM +0200, Yu Jin wrote:
>      > Well actually I have found the issue here, the files, which we
>     see there
>      > are supposed to be in the user dir
>      > (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.3), they are created by
>      > configure.py. I have found the issue here, looks like the official
>      > installer has a bug there and I have coded that bug too simply
>     because I
>      > did not know (just in another folder). Fix is attached, please commit
>      > (message can be e.g.: Run configure.py in the user dir)
> 
>     Note that, most probably, configure.py is run at installation time, so
>     that no user dir may still exist if this is a first time install.
> 
> 
> Ok, thanks, the previously attached patch should still work, NSIS just 
> creates the folder in that case.

We have to discuss whether running configure.py is necessary at 
installation time. AFAIR, this is just a trick to make miktex install 
all missing LaTeX packages (see the chkconfig.ltx part).

Is there any other use for doing it?

JMarc