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

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/20/20 5:36 AM, Kornel Benko wrote:
> 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.

On Windows, we do provide Python. My understanding is that this is done
because it otherwise can be difficult to make sure the right one is
called, etc. We also provide Perl, but the question is why exactly we
need to do that.

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