Re: Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma.

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Peter Münster wrote:

>>If Ruby is necessary to make the minimal linux package offered on  Pragma 
>>functional it would be helpful to specify that in the readme. I thought the 
>>Pragma Linux TeX package was self-contained. It would also be helpful if a 
>>fmtutil.cnf file were included so that fmtutil would work. 
>>
>>I will try downloading ruby from somewhere, installing that and moving 
>>forward. If that doesn't work then I will give up on the Pragma minmal 
>>distro. It is a good idea, but it doesn't work correctly.  
> 
> 
> About one week ago, I installed the latest teTeX-beta (about 100 MB to
> download). And now I checked for usage of ruby:
> ls -lu `which ruby`
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5363 Sep 23  2003 /usr/bin/ruby
> 
> So, it seems, ruby wasn't needed...
> 
> I've just made a little script for my brother to install the newest teTeX
> on SuSE (should work also for other distributions).
> Perhaps you'll find it useful, so I attach it to this message. Just run it
> as root and then log in again to get the right PATH.
> There is also the latest version of pdfTeX.

nowadays perl, python and ruby are present on must linux systems as well as 
macosx; on windows there are good installers so that should not be a problem as 
well;

currently in context, texexec, texutil, texfont and texshow are perl scripts, 
while the rest is ruby; i'm moving code from texutil to some ruby counterparts, 
and some day soon i'll split/cleanup texexec as well [but i will keep things 
downward compatible]; texfont is in the process of cleanup [wybo cleaned up the 
code and i will pick up that thread once i've finished some way-behind work]

in principle, one can expect perl, python and ruby scripts as part of the 
context distribution, since all have their benefits

Hans

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