On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 7:42 PM, ng0 wrote: Thanks for your comments. I will address those before I circulate a patch. > Is this python-2 only? If not, could you explain why you picked 2 and not 3 > (2 is on its way out in 20 months). LyX is sadly not ready for Python 3 yet. It will be soon, but there are still tickets open to support it: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9006 Furthermore, I've tested LyX with Python 3 and it breaks. Any hints on how to wrap the LyX package output so that it binds to the Python input, instead of looking for it at runtime, like the Nix package does? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/86da6d441f7a248b02d545ac1b2c90ef27f42d0b/pkgs/applications/misc/lyx/default.nix