From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39933 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: perl/Ruby dependency -- how deep? Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:06:07 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00804081306n44f18230qc271cc48b2877523@mail.gmail.com> 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 1207685281 2005 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 20:08:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:08:01 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 08 22:08:33 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 1JjK7J-0004hP-0o for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:08:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D291FA2B; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:07:31 +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 09062-04-4; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:06:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C881FADB; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:06:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1C81FA2B for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:06:46 +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 11944-01-3 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:06:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.187]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8E11FADB for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:06:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y8so1108241tia.14 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.84.12 with SMTP id m12mr4133355ybl.169.1207685167758; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.122.20 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:06:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50804081137r51b8e186u1ecbe6b5fb3003c6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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:39933 Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:37 PM, 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? mptopdf at least ... But it might be possible to do without (I'm not sure - you need to try). If you put things on usb, it should be enough to set PATH properly, that's all. Neither perl nor ruby need a proper installation. > 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? Yes. You can already use "context" (see mtx-context.lua), though there is no stub yet (you can easily make one), and it's not so well tested yet. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________