Angus Leeming wrote:
I think I'd like to add this to development/Windows. OK?
Go ahead.
You can find the resulting installer itself at
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136.exe. It's 5.8 MB in size.
As such, I'm quite pleased with the installer.
Me too. Good work!
> However, it is not yet
complete. It should run the Resources/lyx/configure script but doing so
will require it to check for/find a unix shell environment. I plan to
add this support but, for now, you should run "sh configure" from the
Resources/lyx directory before launching lyx.
Once again, I'll say that rewriting configure in some other programming
language would be a scoop. I've seen a few projects use JavaScript: libxml,
libxslt, but you almost had a shell in c++, which I believe would be the
best, since then "configure" could be live inside LyX: It could
automatically check dependencies just-in-time.
As a second best option, you could extend the installer with downloads and
installs of the necessary components. Anyway, as a minimum, you should
present a web-page at the end with a bunch of download links for all the
prerequisites and optional extension packages required to get the full
benefit of LyX.
A few other comments: A nice installer will offer to start the application
after the installation, to relieve the poor user from having to find the
icon himself.
Normally, it is good manners to ask whether to register the application
with the .lyx suffix or not. In theory, the user might have another
application that uses the same suffix, and would prefer to keep it that way.
Of course, a port to 1.4.x would be great.
Finally a question: did you use the most aggressive 7-zip compression? 5.8
Mb is a bit steep,
Regards,
Asger
