From: Enrico Forestieri <forenr@lyx.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:46:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify python requirements.
X-Git-Tag: 2.0.0~2771
X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a6be8089170d9338e24b8f876daf3f64702dbfd;hp=fa0cd9ad60f4367534dad47e82b4196882a28fb5;p=lyx.git

Clarify python requirements.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@35179 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
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diff --git a/INSTALL.scons b/INSTALL.scons
index bad598a4d1..561d23b6f8 100644
--- a/INSTALL.scons
+++ b/INSTALL.scons
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Prerequisites:
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 * Python:
-  Python >= 2.6.0 is required to run scons, but Python >= 2.3 is used by
+  Python >= 2.6.0 is required to run scons, but Python >= 2.3.4 is used by
   lyx itself so the newer version is needed. Python is widely
   available on non-windows systems. Windows users can download and install
   python from http://www.python.org.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 5aec2a1a06..de437f7f66 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -33,10 +33,13 @@ What do I need to run LyX?
     A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. TeX Live for Linux, MikTeX for
     Windows).
 
-    Python 2.3 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts
-    (note that you need at least Python 2.3.4 for exporting LyX files
+    Python 2.3 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts.
+    Note 1: Python 2.3.4 or later is required for exporting LyX files
     to a pre-unicode format, as previous versions are affected by a bug
-    about the normalization of unicode strings)
+    about the normalization of unicode strings.
+    Note 2: Python 2.4.0 or later is required for the clean_dvi.py script,
+    which, however, is only used on Windows, where at least Python 2.6.0
+    is anyway recommended.
 
 How does the LyX version scheme work?