Am 07.03.2020 um 07:30 schrieb Daniel <xraco...@gmx.de>: > > On 2020-03-06 22:06, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 3/6/20 3:24 PM, Daniel wrote: >>> 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?). >> Yes, of course, but we don't install ImageMagick with LyX on OSX, do we? >> [...] >> Riki > > Actually, I am not sure about that. At least I never installed it manually on > macOS. Maybe it comes with the OS then?
No, it’s not part of the OS. It’s detected if installed and there are two good choices: macports and homebrew. LyX is usable without these because of the shipped fallback converter for SVG or other format to PDF or any other format supported by QImage (see src/convert/lyxconvert.cpp). Python is deprecated on OSX and this is a problem in the future. Stephan -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
