New Windows Installers for Testing

[Enrico Forestieri]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Yu Jin wrote:
> Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 17:55 Uhr schrieb Enrico Forestieri <forenr at lyx.org
> >:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 03:29:29PM +0200, Yu Jin wrote:
> > > Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 14:21 Uhr schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <
> > > lasgouttes at lyx.org>:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > I don't think so, because configure.py is run for the admin user at
> > installation time. It will be run again when lyx is started by another
> > user.
> >
> Agree for this case.
> 
> 
> > Then, there is also the issue that, before running configure.py, the
> > installer subverts the MikTeX settings by allowing to always install
> > packages on the fly, irrespective of the choice made through the
> > MikTeX console.
> >
> Are you sure? I have neither experienced this nor found anything related to
> this in the NSIS code. Maybe this was the case with the bundle installer?

Yes, I am sure. I have always been scared by that and didn't use the
installer for years. I tried it again when it was built by Riki, but
it was still like that. After using the installer I spent almost an hour
finding and uninstalling a lot of packages I never use.

However, that was with lyx 2.3.3 and I never used it again thereafter,
so maybe it is not like that anymore.

-- 
Enrico