Asger Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Bo Peng wrote:
| > This is not a bad idea since we only need a small proportion of the
| > standard python distribution. If we can add a Python interpreter and
| > convert.exe to lyx/win, we then only need to install tetex separately.
| > This is reasonable since lyx is considered as a wrapper/GUI for latex.
|
| I agree that this would be a very good thing - to me, the priorities are:
|
| 1) Ease of installation.
| 2) Size of distribution.
Do me the priorities are ease of maintaince, no platform taking up all
the resources etc.
| So everytime a dependence is removed, we win, even at the cost of
| increased download.
The problem is that you don't remove one... you add one.
| Of course, it is better to win on both fronts: In 1.5, work could be
| done to implement support for Lout, as an alternative to the LaTeX
| backend:
awaiting patch.
| The Windows binary distribution of Lout is just below 2MB, and that is
| small enough that we could roll it into our own installer.
so yet another dependency
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