Registry handling on windows (installer)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 11:21:36AM +0100, Yu Jin wrote:
> what could be deleted? My first thought is that we could delete all of
> those executables, which are the exact same size as "magick.exe", like
> "convert.exe", "compare.exe" .... Wwe could delete "ffmpeg.exe" aswell,
> because its not in the current dependencies. And we probably dont need
> "IMDisplay.exe" and the "images" and "www" folders. Im not sure how much
> Imagemagick and ghostscript LyX uses though.

I think we use 'convert' but other executables are looking as a good candidate
for removal. And also please do this scriptable, dependecies like imagemagick
need regular updates due to constant flow of security bugfixes...

> I have just tried to remove those files and I get a total size of 16MB.
> Conversion of images works, I have tried to convert pdf to eps, pdf to png,
> eps to png. And if eps to png is all ghostscript is used for, then we could
> also get rid of that and convert pdf directly to png. Or just dont deliver
> ghostscript and leave it as it is sinse eps to png uses magick command
> anyway.

Isn't ghostscript used for (e)ps->pdf conversion?

Pavel