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

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/20/20 5:10 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 20/02/2020 à 11:36, Kornel Benko a écrit :
>> 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'.
>
> Yes, it is the purpose of a texlive distribution: provide everything
> needed to make tools work. Hence my expectation that texlive on
> windows provides perl if it provides  perl scripts.
>
> Actually it does:
> https://www.tug.org/texlive/windows.html
>
> It seems that MikTex does not do that, though. I am not sure it is LyX
> responsibility to cater for that.

I would propose then to remove Perl from the installer and point people
at the page mentioned for additional info. TeX installations should
manage their own dependencies, or not.

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