Am 17.01.2011 um 15:44 schrieb Richard Heck: > On 01/17/2011 08:23 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >>> Author: rgheck >>> Date: Sun Jan 16 21:28:43 2011 >>> New Revision: 37233 >>> URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/37233 >>> >>> >>> -int LyXRC::read(FileName const& filename) >>> +bool LyXRC::read(FileName const& filename) >>> { >>> [...] >>> + bool const success = prefs2prefs(filename, tempfile, false); >> This makes LyX unusable at Windows. >> >> Prefs2prefs need python to run. Therefore Windows needs to add the >> path to python to the environment path before. However, the path is >> stored in the preferences, so we first need to read the preferences, >> but that is what we are doing here. >> >> In short, we will never be able to run prefs2prefs and I can't start >> LyX anymore. >> > Hmm. Well, do you have any idea of how we can get around this problem? > Otherwise, we will have to abandon the attempt to convert preferences.
One possibility would be to load lyxrc.dist first (shouldn't need to be converted) and go and look for prefs2prefs after that... Stephan
