Upgrade 2.3->2.4 on MS-Windows

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 10/24/24 12:30 PM, A-Imam Al-Sammak wrote:
> Note that you can read files created by 2.3 using 2.4 but not vice versa.

Just to clarify: You can always export 2.4 files to the 2.3 format. 
Moreover, the last release of 2.3, which was 2.3.8, will read 2.4 files.

That said, we do not recommend trying to go back and forth between the 
two versions. It should work all right, but you will likely end up with 
a lot of ERT as newer features often have to be reverted that way.

Riki


> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 18:00 Richard Kimberly Heck 
> <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 10/21/24 5:18 PM, Boylan, Ross via lyx-users wrote:
>>
>>     What’s the recommended upgrade procedure?  In particular, should
>>     I delete 2.3 first (or, perhaps, last)?
>>
>>     There is some discussion on this list about installing 2.3 and
>>     2.4 side by side, suggesting that installing 2.4 does not
>>     automatically remove 2.3.
>>
>     Since no one else has replied...I am not on Windows, so do not
>     know exactly what is recommended. But my memory is that one can
>     just install 2.4, and use it in parallel with 2.3, if one wants to
>     so do. I believe the user directories end up being different.
>
>     It does appear that the wiki is somewhat out of date.
>
>     Riki
>
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