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

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Freitag, den 21.02.2020, 10:56 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
> On 2/21/20 4:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 19.02.2020, 15:11 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly
> > Heck:
> > > Jürgen, do you know about this?
> > I know zero about the win installer.
> 
> I meant: Do you know whether there are LaTeX tools we use for
> multiple
> indexes that are themselves written in Perl?

Yes, there's a perl version of splitindex. The package also provides
versions written in different languages (java, C, tex, texLua).

The manual says: "Distributors should prefer the perl version if they
also provide perl for the installation platform."

Jürgen

> 
> It looks like we've more or less decided not to install Perl with LyX
> on
> Windows, so it probably doesn't matter.
> 
> Riki
> 
> 
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