From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39934 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: perl/Ruby dependency -- how deep? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:22:02 +0200 Message-ID: <47FBD3EA.6020805@wxs.nl> References: <7871fcf50804081137r51b8e186u1ecbe6b5fb3003c6@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207686210 9006 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 20:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:23:30 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 08 22:24:00 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JjKMD-0002OH-Jp for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:23:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F1C1FB77; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:23:07 +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 11144-06-3; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7211FB14; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891C31FB14 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:22:44 +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 14654-05-4 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:22:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DCF1FB57 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 11502 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:22:09 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50804081137r51b8e186u1ecbe6b5fb3003c6@mail.gmail.com> 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: 2.1.9 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:39934 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________