[texworks] TeXworks 0.6.8 released

[Stefan Löffler]

Dear Phil,

thanks for the info. Replies are below.

On 19.02.23 14:15, Philip Taylor (Small Acres) wrote:
> Many thanks for this, Stephan.  Two problems with the hyperlink 
> content, tho' —
>
>  1. If one visits https://tug.org/texworks/, one is offered "Get
>     TeXworks for Windows — version 0.6.8, 23.7MB".  Unfortunately this
>     is not "TeXworks for Windows" /qua/ Windows, it is "TeXworks for
>     Windows 10, and perhaps later". Some (myself included), will need
>     the version compatible with earlier releases, "TeXworks-win7". 
>     For this, one has to follow the link "(Feb 2023) TeXworks 0.6.8
>     released (Get it | Changes)", but that is not clear from the prose.
>

I changed this, albeit in a slightly different way. It should now say 
"requires Windows ≥ 10" below the download info. The reason I did it 
this way is that support for Windows 7 (as well as 8 and 8.1) by 
Microsoft has officially ended. Therefore, the expectation is that "the 
average user" whom the "easy link box" is targeting should be running 
Windows 10 or later at this point, so the corresponding version is 
linked. Note that the Windows 10 version can be considered the "default" 
Windows version by now, with the Windows 7 version only provided for 
backwards compatibility (as it cannot be built with the latest libraries 
anymore)
That said, I also added to the note below where to find "other versions".

>  1. If one follows the link "(Feb 2023) TeXworks 0.6.8 released (Get
>     it | Changes)", one is taken to
>     https://tug.org/texworks/#Getting_TeXworks, from which one can
>     follow a further link "Microsoft Windows: TeXworks
>     <https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/releases> installer" which
>     takes one to https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/releases.
>     Therein one finds
>     TeXworks-win7-setup-0.6.8-202302181307-git_6b1c6ab.exe, but if one
>     runs that as Administrator, TeXworks is installed into C:\Program
>     files (x86)\TeXworks with no option as to the installation
>     location.  Only by downloading
>     TeXworks-win7-0.6.8-202302181307-git_6b1c6ab.zip can one obtain a
>     version of TeXworks compatible with Windows 7 and installable in
>     the users' preferred location.
>

That's weird - I do get a page allowing me to "Select Destination 
Location" (directly after the license confirmation screen) when running 
the setup...

Hope this helps,
Stefan
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