Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not adding our own "path search" mechanism, but use the system for > that. If the system not setup to give access to the correct progs, use > absolute paths for those.
> (If we distrubuted our own 'bin' dir then, OTOH, I'd think it ok to > modify the environment from inside lyx to include that as well.) > I might be naive, but I think we should play as little as possible > with the environment the system provides us. I don't think you're naïve. I don't think you think you're naïve either ;-) However, if I follow through your argument, it seems to mean one of two things: 1. LyX on non-*nix platforms is limited because it doesn't understand the "native exe-finding" mechanism. 2. The LyX C++ code base should be extended so that LyX can understand this "native exe-finding" mechanism. On *nix that's the PATH environment variable. On Windows that's sometimes PATH but more often the registry. On Mac its... something else. That seems like a whole heap of developer effort for no real gain. >From where I stand, the existing path_prefix solution is painless and has minimal impact on the code base. I just "don't get" your dislike of it. Angus
