[tex-live] TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation)

[Hans Hagen]

Oliver Bandel wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:35PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>   
>>        anyway the standard "cp" ("copy" on windows) upon the given list. 
>>
>> That may be true with the Windows installer, I can't say, but it's not
>> true on Unix.  We use the "lists" files to make file lists and then use
>> tar to move them wholesale, instead of invoking cp on each list.
>>     
>
>
> BTW: how will *.sh be used on windows?
> If never seen that running there ;-)
>
> So, if a binary must run on all platforms,
> a script must also.
>
> If there is a distinction between these OS's,
> using different installation tools, then
> it should also be possible to use binaries,
> created from same source, compiled to native
> code for those platforms... ?!
>   
perl, python, ruby ... these can all be wrapped into 'pseudo binaries' being the core engine plus libs used plus scripts into one file which then can run as any program without the need to install the whole scripting environment

Hans 

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