New Windows Installers for Testing

[Enrico Forestieri]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 11:54:26PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 6/9/20 1:33 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sorry about that! I tried to remove this but apparently failed.

No need to be sorry, Riki, I was aware of that and took the risk.
Then, I think that the installer has to configured in such a way to make
the average user experience good, not to satisfy the requirements of
expert people.

-- 
Enrico