On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: > > Do we offer windows installers on sourceforge? If yes, we should stop > that > > ASAP. The reason is that sourceforge was sold some time ago, and they are > > now actively promoting drive-by-installers. See e.g. > > http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has- > > fallen/. These drive-by-installers have a very bad reputation, and this > bad > > reputation might mark off on LyX, which I do not want, and probably > nobody > > else either. > > We try to put everything officially downloadable into our ftp server > together > with gpg key. Uwe sometimes uses sf, but no official links (i'm aware of) > point > there. > > Pavel >
We do "officially" rely on the Windows dependencies file on Sourceforge. See CMakeLists.txt: set(deps_server http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lyx/Win_installers/Dependencies) What is way worse is that there were 461 downloads of LyX 2.0.2 (which is two years old) in the last 2 months only. Vincent
