Include Python3 in the Windows installer

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 01:44, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 3/11/23 03:22, Yu Jin wrote:
>
> 2. The python package gets significantly larger (50MB vs 18MB unzipped)
> and also the LyX installer itself when finished (65MB vs. 55MB).
>
> Not a big deal either.
>
LyX will still be far from Electron apps, that shouldn't be too much of a
problem, except for people not having an excellent Internet connection.

LyX would still just be 65 MB to download, while the smallest MikTeX
download is 130 MB for Windows (https://miktex.org/download#win). I don't
know how large TeX Live is: the installer is 25 MB to download, just as
much as a TinyTeX (https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases), while a
standard TeX Live installation is 1.2 GB. LyX would be much smaller than
that.

The install size isn't as important, nowadays.

> So what would you say? Is pywin32 needed or do I skip it?
>
> Did you see my message about what this is supposed to do? Suppress certain
> windows (terminals, I guess) from appearing when we're doing certain
> things? If so, perhaps it would be worth seeing just how annoying those
> windows are. If the answer is "not very", then maybe it isn't worth the
> trouble.
>
For a typical Windows user, as I could see, having such windows appearing
is associated with viruses. I'm not too fond of adding a message to the
user saying that such windows are normal, they'd tend to think that LyX is
poorly coded.
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