In absence of the official maintainer (Uwe Stöhr) of LyX Alternate
Installer for Windows, I've stepped in and created 'unofficial'
installer for LyX version and 2.0.0rc1 (this is actually r37916
installer, which means it is slightly newer than 2.0.0rc1).
As I'm not a LyX developer, I'm not really sure about the quality of
this installer. It worked for me and for the testers, though.
For now the file is hosted on hotfile. It should also be soon
uploaded to ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/unofficial/ (where my old
installer for 2.0.0beta4 resides), but as the developers remain silent,
I'm not completely sure about this. If someone is willing to host this
and future versions of 'my' installer, please contact me off the list.
The location follows:
http://hotfile.com/dl/110539692/591d4ee/LyX-2.0.0rc1-AltInstaller.zip.html
WARNING!!!
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THIS INSTALLER CONFLICTS WITH LyX 1.6.x !!!
So, don't try to install LyX 2.0 together with LyX 1.6 - it will
destroy/overwrite LyX 1.6 settings.
For details, see http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7315). I still
cannot find where the path to the LyX settings is hardcoded in the
installer (aside from Settings.nsh), so the bug will remain there for
the time being...
You have been warned...
Technical details
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To compile LyX, I've used msvc 2008 express together with SCons, which
is the recommended route for compiling LyX 2.0.0-beta4. For some reasons
unknown to me, it is no longer the case with 2.0.0-rc1 (there, msvc 2010
with CMake are recommended)
Then I've used the 'LyxPackage' released semi-officially
by Uwe Stöhr for LyX 2.0beta3, replaced and changed some files,
and finally built the installer.
In case of any problems you can mail me, but I can't promise
anything (please CC me, as I am not subscribed there).
Regards,
Michał Skrzypek
