Perl and Indexing? [Re: Building windows installer questions]

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Wed Feb 19 20:47:05 UTC 2020


Am Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:11:43 -0500
schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:

> On 2/19/20 1:01 PM, Yu Jin wrote:
> >  
> > Am Mi., 19. Feb. 2020 um 17:04 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck
> > <rikiheck at lyx.org <mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>>:
> >
> >     If you do update these other tools, please send me a zip of the
> >     dependencies package, so I can use it as well. (It'll be best to
> >     put that somewhere on the web I can download it, if possible, as
> >     it would make for a BIG mail attachment.)
> >
> > Ok, sounds good. I have found newer versions of most of the stuff.
> > Could not find the small Perl version though. If I download it from
> > here: http://strawberryperl.com/ , I get a huge version with a lot of
> > files in there. How do you usually stripp it down?
> 
> I never have done that. What's there now is left over from when Uwe was
> responsible.
> 
> I'm trying to remember why LyX needs Perl on Windows. If it were
> possible to avoid it, that would be worth doing.

Texlive has many perl scripts (in TL19 ~ 237).

> Actually, just saw in the change log: "install a stripped-down version
> of Perl to be able to use LyX's feature to have several indexes also
> when LyX is installed without admin privileges". I guess this must be
> because one of the indexing things uses Perl? Jürgen, do you know about
> this?
> 
> Riki
> 

	Kornel
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