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 -- Lgb