[tex-live] Some Perl scripts fail under Win32

[T T]

Dear Gregor,

Thank you for your detailed report. Although nobody replied earlier,
we have take the notice of your message and discussed it internally.
Unfortunately, the situation will not improve before the release, as
there is not sufficient time to work on that right now. We will try to
look into that after the release and see if we can increase the script
coverage to the level comparable with *nix platforms (where it makes
sense, of course).

Cheers,

Tomek

2009/10/26 Gregor Zimmermann <gregor.zimmermann at physik.uni-leipzig.de>:
> Hi all,
>
> the following scripts fail under Win32 due to missing Perl modules:
>
> Script (Module)
>
> latexmk (Digest.pm)
> pdfannotextractor (File/Which.pm)
> svn-multi (Date/Parse.pm)
> texcount (locale.pm)
> ulqda (Digest/SHA1.pm)
>
> There might be other broken dependencies, as those given above are only
> the ones identified in the respective crashes...
> All other .pl-scripts under texmf(-dist)/scripts are either able to
> display their help messages (at least) or are not callable via .exe-stubs.
>
> Furthermore 'a2ping' seems to need a unix/linux shell and crashes when
> called under win32.
>
> Regards,
>  Gregor
>