On 1/29/21 4:41 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 04:51:12AM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: >> While working on the ePub output, I ran through many Python scripts. I >> corrected a few bgs and a lot of formatting, plus one feature (find Java in >> the Windows registry in configure.py), here are the patches. May I push >> them on the master branch? > As regarda java, I have it installed but it is not found. I don't have the > registry keys that are searched for. A key containing a usable path is > \HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\4EA42A62D9304AC4784BF2238120180F\ProductIcon > and the fact that it *should* be something related to java is the fact that > \HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\4EA42A62D9304AC4784BF2238120180F\ProductName > contains "Java 8 Update 281". > > However, the java installer updates the PATH env var, so that I can > simply access the java executables from any command line. > > I discourage using ad hoc techniques that only work on some configurations.
I would agree with that. But of course that makes it quite difficult to detect certain programs on Windows. I guess we have to live with that, then. I'll omit the usual complaints about Windows.... Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
