Registry handling on windows (installer)

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 3/6/20 3:24 PM, Daniel wrote:
> On 2020-03-06 19:53, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> There is something I have always wondered here, but never really
>> understood. Why do WE end to install ImageMagick? Why can't we just
>> have the user install it, like we do on other platforms, and then
>> detect it via the registry, if that's what we need to do? If we were
>> going to use configure.py for fix broken dependencies then we can
>> just use it to detect them in the first place, no? There is the issue
>> that any installed ImageMagick will be bigger than what we ship. But
>> the huge benefit is that, if there's a security issue with
>> ImageMagick (as there sometimes is), we don't have to issue a new LyX
>> installer to fix it.
>>
>> I'd ask the same questions about Ghostscript and Python.
>>
>> Riki
>
> I guess the difference is that there is no package manager on Windows
> (and on macOS?). 

Yes, of course, but we don't install ImageMagick with LyX on OSX, do we?


> And installing ImageMagick youself seems a bit daunting:
>
> https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows

There are just a lot of choices. We can make a suggestion about which
version people should install. I would assume first one was fine.

Riki