Registry handling on windows (installer)
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
lasgouttes at lyx.org
Fri Mar 6 21:42:47 UTC 2020
Le 6 mars 2020 18:53:07 GMT+00:00, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org> a écrit :
>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?
No user has IM installed by default, and no package manager will do it for us. I really think that shipping the few binaries that we need and skipping the registry thing is the simplest solution for everyone.
JMarc
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