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

[Oliver Bandel]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:36:19PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Will the lists be created during installation process?
> 
> No, they are pregenerated.
> 
>     BTW: how will *.sh be used on windows?
> 
> They aren't.  Windows installation has always been completely separate
> from Unix installation.  One thing we would like to overcome, but it is
> not trivial.


OCaml (bytecode) runs on windows also.

  http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/release.en.html


If someone is here who wants to test it?

  http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.10/ocaml-3.10.0-win-msvc.exe

Perl also is not installed on every Windows machine.
But there is ActivePerl, which schould run out of the box.

Why is there a special Perl-distribution on the TeX-DVD?
Is this prepaired in some way, which makes it better than Active Perl?


Ciao,
   Oliver