Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is my long announced patch to remove the need to create > lyxrc.defaults and friends in the main support directory (and build > directory). I really would like to see some good testing of this one, > including on windows and osx. This one is for 1.5, I can provide a > 1.4 version if needed.
> This patch means that the configuration after installation done in the > os x, windows and rpm installers is not needed any more. That is cool indeed. Not running configure from the installer would be great. I'll also note that at the moment the installer modifies configure to output a \path_prefix entry to lyxrc.defaults. As and when the LyX 1.4 series moves to configure.py, this step should either be changed to modify configure.py or removed altogether if some variant of Bo'd auto feature is back ported. Thinking about it, LyX will still need to know where sh.exe and python.exe are. That suggests that you're going to end up with a chicken-and-egg type problem: You'll need to run configure.py to generate lyxrc.defaults to read \path_prefix to find python.exe but... I'm sure that the solution isn't beyond the wit of man, but you heard the problem here first ;-) Angus
