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

[Kornel Benko]

Am Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:40:27 +0100
schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>:

> Le 19 février 2020 21:47:05 GMT+01:00, Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org> a écrit :
> >> 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).  
> 
> If it does, I guess it provides the relevant interpreter, doesn't it ?
> 
> JMarc

No, why should it? If we provide lyx, we do not provide python.

OTOH, package 'texlive-binaries' needs perl for instance and package 'texlive-base' wants
'perl-tk'.

	Kornel
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