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TeXpresso for Windows 11 #57

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leanhdung1994 opened this issue May 8, 2024 · 3 comments
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TeXpresso for Windows 11 #57

leanhdung1994 opened this issue May 8, 2024 · 3 comments

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@leanhdung1994
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leanhdung1994 commented May 8, 2024

Recently, a vscode extension for TeXpresso has been released. It is mentioned that

TeXpresso needs to be installed separately to use this extension, following its install guide which contains instructions for macOS, Fedora, Arch Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu.

Certainly, the number of users of Windows is large. I hope TeXpresso will soon have a release for Windows. Thank you so much for your consideration!

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let-def commented May 9, 2024

Unfortunately Windows lack some features needed by TeXpresso (in a sense, that's what made this experiment cheap enough to carry it as a side-project).
Supporting Windows will be a profound change, and I don't even know how to implement that properly (I am looking for a non-invasive change to keep the story simple with respect to upstream changes). However, if successful, this will also benefit other platforms (making TeXpresso more robust and possibly more performant on Linux and macOS, and enabling a web version at some point).

In the meantime, the simplest to get TeXpresso on a Windows machine is to go through WSL. Consider that the project in its current state is just a prototype; a portable version is possible but would require a significant rewriting that will take months.

@leanhdung1994
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Thank you so much Frédéric for your elaboration! Now I am clear and understood why the Windows version is difficult! I hope you have a nice vacation! (I live in France too)

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let-def commented May 9, 2024

Thanks :), enjoy your vacation too!

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