New Windows Installers for Testing

[Yu Jin]

Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 14:21 Uhr schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <
lasgouttes at lyx.org>:

> Le 09/06/2020 à 13:51, Yu Jin a écrit :
> >
> >
> > Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 13:12 Uhr schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> > <lasgouttes at lyx.org <mailto:lasgouttes at lyx.org>>:
> >
> >     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?
> >
> >
> > 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.
>

I see, but don't we then save this time when LyX is started for the first
time? Otherwise configure.py would run there.

Eugene
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