New Windows Installers for Testing

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 09/06/2020 à 13:51, Yu Jin a écrit :
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> Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 13:12 Uhr schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes 
> <lasgouttes at lyx.org <mailto:lasgouttes at lyx.org>>:
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>     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).
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>     Is there any other use for doing it?
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> Actually, if the user runs the installer as admin, then the packages 
> will be installed as admin (in case the auto install for packages is 
> allowed in MiKTeX preferences), which would not be the case if the 
> installer wouldn't run configure.py and the user starts LyX after 
> installation as user. So in this case it is worth running configure.py 
> from the installer. In other cases it doesn't hurt too. Therefore I'd 
> say we keep that functionality.

If we want to cater for miktex, it would be much more effective to use 
its API to provide a list of packages we need, rather than using the 
side effect of automatic downloading packages when they are needed. I 
suspect it would be much faster and would allow for a reasonable UI.

OTOH, for texlive, running configure.py is just wasting time if I 
understand correctly. And since a lot of packages are checked in 
configure.py just for this, we are talking about a lot of time, here.

JMarc