Bug#381622: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: [PATCH] bug 2741: configure.py is not run when using batch mode

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Per" == Per Olofsson <pelle at debian.org> writes:

Per> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
>> What about that: mkdir /tmp/tempuserdir lyx -userdir
>> /tmp/tempuserdir -e latex foo.lyx rm -rf /tmp/tempuserdir

Per> Yes, I think that's an acceptable workaround.

Could you confirm that the patch I sent fits your needs?

Per> The best would be if configure.py was removed completely and
Per> everything was detected at runtime (or defaults used, or
Per> whatever).
>>  Yes, this is something I would like to see for at least some of
>> the stuff. It is not clear however what the runtime penalty would
>> be.

Per> When it comes to viewers, it could use xdg-open from
Per> portland.freedesktop.org which uses the user's preferred viewer
Per> (that's what we do in the Debian package).

How widespread is this code currently? In particular, I am very
interested by the DAPI library. We have os-specific code to use system
viewers on windows and osx, it would be nice to do the same on kde/gnome.

Per> I guess the problem is the LaTeX checking stuff. I don't know
Per> what to do about that.

We could use kpsewhich online. But it requires some work.

JMarc