From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/51793 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ruby or perl or lua or ... Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4A5CE71E.4070403@wxs.nl> References: <50d1c22d0907141209t19f5d4bfx503def4e2ff1e36e@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247602525 24763 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 20:15:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:15:25 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 14 22:15:19 2009 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 1MQoPG-0002Lg-Dg for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:15:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887971FB8E; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:15:17 +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 02698-02; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564981FB30; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D411FB30 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:33 +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 31476-05 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A9A1FB1F for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n6EKEMe7015141 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.107] (unverified [10.100.1.107]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 26843-1840426 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:22 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <50d1c22d0907141209t19f5d4bfx503def4e2ff1e36e@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.107 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=15; city=Almelo; latitude=52.3500; longitude=6.6667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,6.6667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 260816238 - cdc32da248c7 - 20090714 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:51793 Archived-At: ivo welch wrote: > hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer > language in the future? indeed. most useful script are already converted to lua (mtx-* files that run on top of mtxrun); the advantage is that mtxrun has a built in filedatabase handler (so we don't use kpsewhich at all) and is pretty fast the only bit that is still depending on ruby is the index sorting that is built in texexec (used by pdftex and xetex) but i could not motivate myself to rewrite that bit the luatx workflow only uses lua and uses luatex itself as lua interpreter so there are no dependencies 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________