Am 03.12.2013 09:26, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn:
>> 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.
I use SF very often and have not encountered any problems. When I click on the links given in the
article you linked I also don't get any advertisement installers or something.
Besides the link to the Windows dependencies, the Windows installer has
links to the thesaurus and dictionary files on sourceforge (if I'm not
mistaken).
Yes, but what is the problem with having them on SF? This way the dictionaries are mirrored
automatically and that as the reason put them there.
Uwe,
There are many non-official projects that are used for distribution:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstall.berlios/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/
http://sourceforge.net/project/lyx/<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lyx/Win_installers/Dependencies>
Some of them are not updated for years, and one even provides a beta2
installer of something which is not beta2. Why do you want to distribute
those files yourself via non-official channels ?
- Berlios is dead and I cannot login to that folder (I was automatically kicked
out when Berlos closed).
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstall.berlios/
was automatically created by a bot of Berios wwhen berlios was closed I cannot
do anything with this.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/
This is my repository to upload things that are intended to tbe transferred to ftp.lyx.org or to
have mirrored files like dictionaries.
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Besides this I have now upload an installer for LyX 2.1beta2:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/TestVersions/LyX-210beta2-Installer-2.exe/download
(You have already built an installer, but from which repository is the installer code? Note that for
a release of a final LyX 2.1.x, some code in the installer (like e.g. the file associations) needs
to be adapted first. I will do this if you tell me it is time for.).
regards Uwe
