[tex-live] Ruby interpreter in the TeXLive distribution?
Jean-Pierre Chretien
Jean-Pierre.Chretien at cert.fr
Thu Jun 29 15:22:43 CEST 2006
>>To: tex-live at tug.org
>>From: "Richard Gabriel" <rgabriel at kerio.com>
>>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:01:50 +0200
>>Subject: Re: [tex-live] Ruby interpreter in the TeXLive distribution?
>>
>> > hm, if one does a bit more than just plain text one needs all kind of
>> > extras anyway (xml, graphics, viewing, etc)
>> Well, this is already a bit offtopic, I guess.
>> But, IMHO, the TeXLive distribution should contain everything needed to process a *.tex file by the TeX (ConTeXt in
particular).
>> By the way, if you run for instance "texmfstart.exe texexec.rb" with no Ruby installed, it simply DOES NOTHING... :-(
The Windows port of LyX provides installers, which ease the download/install
of needed third party programs (if not already present)
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows
Would that be appropriate for TeXLive on Windows ?
I guess that dependency management would do it for Linux distributions.
--
Jean-Pierre
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