From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27968 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texexec Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 01:06:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4469095A.5050500@wxs.nl> References: <445A7A23.5070302@wxs.nl> <20060515225538.GI31904@obiit.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147734515 19077 80.91.229.2 (15 May 2006 23:08:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:08:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 16 01:08:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfmAv-0005hi-8l for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA07D12780; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:08:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11069-01; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:08:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28061279A; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:06:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A661279A for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:06:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08879-06 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:06:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id F41EC12780 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 01:06:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 17265 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:06:04 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20060515225538.GI31904@obiit.org> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27968 Archived-At: frantisek holop wrote: > 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? :))) > it's all a matter of taste. i like ruby and after working with it for a whiel decided that i could write better / cleaner code in ruby than in perl; i skipped python (didn't like some of its syntax); i'll stick to ruby (and later on lua for embedded tex stuff, but that's another story); so, there wil not be a texexec.py Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------