On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 01:37:58PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I forgot to say that it hurt me a lot to hear that after more than 10 > years contributing to LyX on Windows my expertise count nothing. So all > my countless hours of work were for nothing with the state we currently > have.
It does not count nothing, but it does not give you right to own installers code as if it was your personal belonging. No one from the team was comfortable with the solution to the MikTeX problem, yet you had totally uncompromising stance so that we couldn't even use single informative dialog containing the dangerous word "LaTeX" -- in which case MiKTeX would be most likely still supported and default. You decided my way or highway and we were suddenly in the middle of major release without any Win installer at all -- and after announcement. No matter how big expert you are I'd rather have simpler and easy reproducible built of installer, than fancy installer with bus factor 1 and dependent on whims of someone who rather ditches the whole thing than to compromise. Mac world can live with separate tex installer, and Win world will survive it as well, though I agree there could have been more comfy solution if we could agree. But we don't seem to be able to even exachange emails without hurting each other now, so the best is probably the current forked solution in which you can chase your own philosophy. Pavel
