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

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/19/20 4:42 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
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> Le 19 février 2020 21:11:43 GMT+01:00, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org> a écrit :
>> 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?
> The Perl scripts for indexing have been converted to python a long time ago. What is the change log entry date ?

It's from LyX 2.0.7, March 2014. But I had in mind stuff installed by
LaTeX, not our own scripts. E.g., is xindy written in Perl? What tools
do we actually require here?

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