[tex-live] [Fwd: Re: TeXLive Perl + latexmk (windows)]

[Philipp Stephani]

Am 13.04.2010 um 14:41 schrieb George N. White III:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
> 
>> and I forgot the list
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeXLive Perl + latexmk (windows)
>> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:03:37 +0200
>> From: Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>
>> To: reinhard.kotucha at web.de
>> References: <4BC32DEC.4050903 at imf.au.dk>
>> <19395.14343.289829.772867 at zaphod.ms25.net>
>> 
>> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 12 April 2010 Lars Madsen wrote:
>>> 
>>>  > Hi, the latexmk script needs the Digest perl package, which is missing
>>>  > in tlperl
>>>  >  > Rather unfortunate as I'm giving a talk tomorrow which include a
>>>  > latexmk demo
>>> 
>>> Can't you use a Linux machine?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>>  Reinhard
>>> 
>> 
>> I'd like to, but most people are using windows, and we'd like more TL
>> users on windows.
> 
> If your Windows users have recent hardware you can use a Linux Virtual
> machine.

Running a virtual machine only for using TeX Live? In that case I'd prefer using MikTeX, which is known to run fine on Windows. (But I don't know whether it includes latexmk.)