From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: perl/Ruby dependency -- how deep?
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:22:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FBD3EA.6020805@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50804081137r51b8e186u1ecbe6b5fb3003c6@mail.gmail.com>
Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> Two questions came up when I was looking into putting ConTeXt on a USB
> stick (i.e., as a "portable app"):
>
> 1. Is perl still required for a ConTeXt installation (say, under
> Windows)? I know texexec is now written in Ruby, but are there other
> programs in Stand-alone or the Minimals that require perl?
perl is not needed, unless you want to run mptopdf, and even that is not
needed because texexec can do the same
> 2. I vaguely recall some mention of eventually replacing texexec with
> a Lua version. Is this actually being planned, and would that
> eliminate the external language dependencies of ConTeXt?
luatex + context mkiv is indeed independent
- index sorting takes place in mkiv
- job control is done with mtxrun/mtx-context
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-08 18:37 Joel C. Salomon
2008-04-08 20:06 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-08 20:22 ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-08 20:22 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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