On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: > Am 21.01.2013 04:12, schrieb Scott Kostyshak: > > >>> LyX is already configured even twice during the installation. >> >> >> Good to hear. Is this new or has it always been like this? > > > This is new since January 3 this year. Before that day the installer > suffered from the mentioned configure.py bug. > > >> I thought >> that the problem below is just that the output is not seen. So to be >> clear about what I'm asking: after installing LyX on Windows, when you >> open LyX for the first time it takes just as long as when you open it >> the second or third time (for example, two seconds) ? > > > No. The time-consuming package installation when LyX is installed the first > time on a PC is done during the installation so that you can see the > progress. > But as said, there is a bug in MiKTeX that prevents the package installation > during the installation on some 64bit Windows. > > >> Also, why is it configured twice? > > > Because sometimes MiKTeX needs to be updated first before it is ready to > install packages if it was just installed. Moreover sometimes MiKTeX runs > into a timeout breaking the package installation. Therefore the > configuration is run again after MiKTeX is updated. (If nothing needs to be > done each configuration run takes only about 3 seconds). For more info see > the source code of the installer. > > regards Uwe
OK. I didn't follow all of that but from what I understand either (a) LyX on Windows no longer takes a long time to start up the first time or (b) it does take a long time but this is necessary and can't be incorporated into the installer and now there is some visual indication that this is happening. Thanks for the explanations, Scott
