LYX 2.4 RC1 — Unable to export a Lyx archive (zip)

[Enrico Forestieri]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 09:38:44AM +0000, José Matos wrote:
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>The culprit, from your analysis, seems to be that on windows some
>variables are bytes instead of strings (unicode text on Python 3).

I think it is the other way around. Some variables are bytes on linux 
and strings on windows. But I am very confused by all this dance.

>Would not it be easier to convert the bytes to unicode, in the cases
>where we need (read windows), and then it is not necessary to change
>getopt and friends?

The script is geared around bytes and I think the proposed patch is the 
minimal one. Otherwise I fear a complete overhaul is needed.

>I am finishing other tasks and so I had not a proper look into this
>issue and so I am admit to be wrong.

It is a mess and while adjusting a thing some other thing was breaking. 
I don't plan to look further into it if simply shipping a patched 
getopt.py on windows solves the problem ;)

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Enrico