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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: LyX user directory path on Mac contains PACKAGE
From:       Stephan Witt <st.witt () gmx ! net>
Date:       2013-06-17 5:04:18
Message-ID: 2EC6C165-56E4-4430-89E1-C35D97EAECA9 () gmx ! net
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Am 16.06.2013 um 19:26 schrieb Julien Rioux <jrioux@lyx.org>:

> On 26/05/2013 4:14 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
> > When 2.0.0 came out we had a problem on Mac with the user directory path.
> > All the time it's name was the value of the PACKAGE definition.
> > Consequently it changed from LyX-1.6 to LyX-2.0 then.
> > 
> > Now we start the 2.1 series and the user directory will change to LyX-2.1.
> > Because we have prefs2prefs it should be copied somehow from LyX-2.0 to LyX-2.1
> > initially in case LyX-2.0 (or LyX-1.6) is present.
> > 
> > But I'm not sure if this can be done by the "configure.py" script
> > or what other way one can go.
> > 
> > It would be good if this can be fixed before the final 2.1 release.
> > 
> > Stephan
> > 
> 
> It's correct for the user directory to contain the version, so that you can have \
> both 2.0 and 2.1 installed without interfering.

Yes, that's my opinion too.

> If the user wants to retain their preferences from 2.0 when installing 2.1, they \
> can copy their 2.0 folder to the 2.1 folder. This is something that the installer \
> could offer to do for the user, but I doubt that it belongs in configure.py.

Currently the user directory is created by the LyX binary and initially populated by \
configure.py.

On mac there is no installer, ATM. It's possible to start the application from \
distribution media to try it. Then the new 2.1 user directory get's created by \
configure.py. 

Thanks for answering.

Stephan=


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