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hmm, on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:03:15AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that
> I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any 
> strong objections to this?
> 
> Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that
> purpose i'll add a /scripts/context/stubs/[mswin|unix] path with the
> default stubs that one can copy to some bin path  


just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why ruby was chosen?
was something wrong with perl?  will the next one (newnewtexexec) be in
python? :)))

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