On 2020-03-06 19:53, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
There is something I have always wondered here, but never really
understood. Why do WE end to install ImageMagick? Why can't we just have
the user install it, like we do on other platforms, and then detect it
via the registry, if that's what we need to do? If we were going to use
configure.py for fix broken dependencies then we can just use it to
detect them in the first place, no? There is the issue that any
installed ImageMagick will be bigger than what we ship. But the huge
benefit is that, if there's a security issue with ImageMagick (as there
sometimes is), we don't have to issue a new LyX installer to fix it.
I'd ask the same questions about Ghostscript and Python.
Riki
I guess the difference is that there is no package manager on Windows
(and on macOS?). And installing ImageMagick youself seems a bit daunting:
https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows
Daniel
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