metainfo and cmake

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Fri Oct 6 10:14:33 UTC 2023


Am Fri, 06 Oct 2023 10:53:25 +0100
schrieb José Matos <jaomatos at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 11:09 +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > Should we rename this file on install to be able to install multiple
> > lyx-versions?
> > Like "org.lyx.LyX.metainfo.xml" -> "LyX2.4.metainfo.xml"
> > if using versioned suffixes?
> > 
> > 	Kornel  
> 
> Using my blue hat here (Fedora). :-)
> 
> Although I am not using cmake (yet!) I prefer to have the simple
> version. When I need to take care of another version I prefer to do it
> myself.
> 
> Looking into the system directory (/usr/share/metainfo/) I do not see
> any versioned file.
> 
> My two ¢.

I am using lyx2.3 and lyx2.4 in parallel installed. The problem will arise on installing
lyx2.5 later.

Installing without using the suffix should be no problem for you (e.g. no change)
My proposal would rename it to "LyX.metainfo.xml".

	Kornel
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