From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14904 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Announcement: texutil.c Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:31:30 +0100 Organization: Elvenkind Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20040319133130.3ebb63ff.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <20040317151022.5648cb26@glenlivet.elvenkind.com> <20040319091411.5abf302c@glenlivet.elvenkind.com> <405ABB01.5040900@voiceinterconnect.de> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079699515 3949 80.91.224.253 (19 Mar 2004 12:31:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Fri Mar 19 13:31:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4JAA-0004at-00 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:31:46 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D387F10B26; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:28:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from amsfep20-int.chello.nl (amsfep12-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.18]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255BE10ABB for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:27:44 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from hal.chatalicious.net ([62.163.251.252]) by amsfep20-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with SMTP id <20040319123022.FBLC7031.amsfep20-int.chello.nl@hal.chatalicious.net> for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:30:22 +0100 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <405ABB01.5040900@voiceinterconnect.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14904 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14904 On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:18:57 +0100 Uwe Koloska wrote: > Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > For a larger project with ConTeXt that should not depend on > > the availability of perl. We needed a very large section of > > Texutil (--ref and --figures), so it made sense to port the > > entire program to C. > > What about using another script language like TCL that can be > made into a single file executable? The dependency seems to be I knew how to get the job done quickly in C, not in TCL. Also there are some extra runtime requirements like: "not bigger nor slower than necessary". The C version runs quite a bit faster. The compiled C code is a lot smaller than including an interpreter. texutil.c links easily to tex.c (and tex.rb would have been a bit too much work ;)). etc. Incidentally: yes, I have a tex.c. That may in fact become GPL-ed sometime in the future, if and when our finished project deviates sufficiently from tex.c+texutil.c